Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Collection

Present shelfmark

Arabe 438

Former shelfmark

Saint-Germain 60; Séguier BB (1672); Supplément arabe 170a

Total pages

114, I, I' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Tome I d'un Coran en huit volumes (I, 1-III, 200)

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Tunis

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Vol. 1 of 8; Q. 1-3. Binding: 38 x 27.5 x 3.5 cm. Surface: 38,5 x 27 cm. Paper with Watermarks. Textblock: 30 x 17 cm. 9 lines per page. Paper; different papers; chain lines: 3,9 cm; 20 laid lines = 19 mm; watermarks: mermaid with two fins in circle, alternating chain lines: 2,5; (other marks: crown in circle; crescent with cross); misṭara; in folio; quinions. Binding: light brow leather; leather doublures attached to block by hinges, the doublure covers the turn-ins. Cover: mandorla with two floral pendants, filled with arabesques (cf. Weisweiler, Deckeltyp 96). In very good condition. Large Maġribī Qur'ānic calligraphy; experimental letter forms. Black ink; with red (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow (hamza); verse markers, marginal vignettes, and suraheading illuminated in gold (same design as Q006). Sura headings in Kūfī script. Tunis booty; taken by Charles V (?); coll. Cardinal de Granvelle, cf. owner mark in vol.2; coll. Séguier-Coislin. Bequeathed to the abbey of Saint Germain des Prés in 1732.

Entry author

Marina Santana