Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Österreidchisches Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv

Collection

Present shelfmark

HHStA Or HS 593

Former shelfmark

Total pages

1 fol

Folio measures

49 x 33.5 cm

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. 40:35-53. Textblock: 39x24 cm. 17 lines per page. Large paper folio; chain lines not discernible; 20 laid lines = 25 mm. Folded (15 x 12 cm). Maġribī round script; stylised bookhand. Blue ink; also diacritica and vowels etc. Verse markers and the mnemonic sign ṣād in gold (with red). The envelope of the letter still exists in the HHStA, Staatenabteilung Tunis 1, Konv. 1. Letter: "Le Roy de Tunis à l'Empereur Charles V", ca. 1542. Paper with watermark (crown?). Together with (non-consecutive) fragments in Paris and Oxford.

Entry author

Marina Santana