Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1404

Former shelfmark

Total pages

201 fols

Folio measures

38x47 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Script

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Arberry (1967). The Koran Illuminated. Handlist of the Korans in the Chester Beatty Library

Descriptive card

An incomplete Koran. 201 fols on form vellum, 19 lines to the page. The script is upright, thick and very regular; vowels are marked in red. Alif is 1 cm high. Ornamental bands of coloured design mark the beginnings of Suras. The binding is Mamluk, brown leather flapped. Comparable scripts are Della Vida VIII, Munajjed 5 (1), Vajda 6b.

Entry author

Marina Santana