Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Collection

Present shelfmark

Arabe 396

Former shelfmark

Supplément Ar. 2250

Total pages

1 fol

Folio measures

41.5 x 30.5 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Fragment de Coran (VII, 10 à 28)

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Q: 7:10-28. Textblock: 39 x 24 cm. 17 lines per page. Large paper folio; chain lines discernible; 20 laid lines = 25 mm. Folded (13 x 13,5 cm). Maġribī round script; stylised bookhand. Silver ink, letters outlined in black; also diacritica and vowels etc. Verse markers and the mnemonic sign ṣād in gold (and blue?). Old shelfmark: Supplément Ar. 2250 Together with (non-consecutive) fragments in Vienna and Oxford.

Entry author

Marina Santana