Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Present shelfmark

Former shelfmark

Strozzi 34

Total pages

67, III, IV' 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

1488

Released place

Zaytuna Mosque, Tunis

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

Vol. 19 of 20; Q. 58-71 (3 aḥzāb). Binding: 39 x 29,5 x 2,5 cm. Surface: 39 x 29 cm. Paper with Watermarks. Textblock: 33 x 20 cm. 8 lines per page. Inscription: Fol. 001r: Endowment; taḥbīs 6. Paper partially restored; chain lines 3,5 cm, 20 laid lines = 22 mm; with watermark: bull's head with 4-petaled star; in folio; quaternions, quinions, sextions. Binding restored; original cover glued to new binding. Dark red leather with gold. Front and back different. Flap is missing, but left imprint on paper. In very good condition. Large Qur'ānic calligraphy; experimental letter forms; resemblong nash script, with Maġribī elements. Black ink; with red (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and orange (hamza); verse markers, marginal vignettes, and opening heading illuminated in gold; application of gold leaves. Sura headings in Kūfī script, white ink on ornamented ground. Polychrome palette. Endowment deed on fol. 1r (taḥbīs 6); coll. Strozzi; Biblioteca Leopoldina; entered BML in the 18th century.

Entry author

Marina Santana