Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bodleian Library

Collection

Laud

Present shelfmark

MS. Laud Or 72

Former shelfmark

Total pages

64 fols

Folio measures

20 x 14.4 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

1505

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Bizerte, Great Mosque

Colophon

Colophon position

Fol. 062r

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Vol. 2 of 20; Q. 2:203-3:91 (3 aḥzāb). Binding: 20 x 15 x 1.5 cm. Surface: 20 x 14.4 cm. Paper with Watermarks. Textblock: 15 x 9 cm. 9 lines per page. Inscriptions: Fol. 005r: Endowment; taḥbīs 18. Fol. 062r: Colophon. Paper, chain lines 3,9 cm, 20 laid lines = 14 mm; watermark: hand with 5-petaled flower; in 4to; first 4 fols. blank. Binding restored; originally at least 5 sewing stations (one more wholed, but not used). Large Maġribī Qur'ānic calligraphy. Black ink; with red (vowels), turquoise (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and ochre (hamza); verse markers and dabgad in ochre. Headings in ochre, same script as rasm. Endowment deed on fol. 1r (taḥbīs 18). John Greaves (Donation 1635/I). Title in his hand fol. 1r. Archbishop Laud.

Entry author

Marina Santana