Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

LA County Museum

Collection

Present shelfmark

M.2002.1.25

Former shelfmark

Total pages

2 fols

Folio measures

27,5 x 22 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

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. 9:123-129 and Q. 10:9-14 (bifolio). Textblock: 19,5 x 17 cm. 9 lines per page. Large Maġribī script; stylised bookhand. Gold ink, letters outlined in black. Others sections and leaves fron the same manucript are in the following collections: Topkapi Saray Library, Istanbul, EH219; Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ms.1424; Eton College Library, Windsor; Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, Smith-Lessouëf 217; the Keir Collection, London; (single folios) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Ms.37.21; Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection, Geneva; 2 National Library, Cairo; Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait, QUR.0127.TSR; Khalili Collection, London, QUR 520.

Entry author

Marina Santana