Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bodleian Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. Pococke 444

Former shelfmark

Total pages

2, I, I' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

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. 33:64-34:21 Binding: 46 x 32 x 0,5 cm. Surface: 45 x 30,5 cm. Textblock: 39 x 24 cm. 17 lines per page. Large paper folio; chain lines not discernible; 20 laid lines = 25 mm. Folded (9,5 x 8,5 cm). Maġribī round script; stylised bookhand. Blue ink; also diacritica and vowels etc. Verse markers and the mnemonic sign ṣād in gold (with red). Sura heading: chrysography in niash script; in plain golden frame with marginal vignette and the addition "makkiyya" (sura revelated in Mecca). Together with (non-consecutive) fragments in Paris and Vienna.

Entry author

Marina Santana