Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Nazionale

Collection

Present shelfmark

Ex-Vind.Corano 1.1

Former shelfmark

Total pages

48, II, II' 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

1524

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 30; Q. 1-2:141. Binding: 21.5 x 17.5 x 1,5 cm. Surface: 21.5 x 15 cm. Paper with Watermarks. Textblock: 13.5 x 9 cm. 7 lines per page. Inscription: Fol. 001r: Endowment; taḥbīs 15; Royal Endowment. Paper; chain lines 3,2 cm, 20 laid lines = 18 mm; watermark: hand with 5-petaled pointed flower, single cuff; differing chain lines: 2 cm; quaternions; quinions; in 4to. All original leaves, first and last blank and not counted. Binding restored (Roma 1965): Turns-ins from the outer cover on top of the leather doublures; stabbed sewing on 10 stations; the spine-lining consists of colourless cloth (as can be seen in a broken example), and the leather doublures are pasted onto the outer leaves of the textblock by cut hinges. The title of the work respectively the number of the volume is gilt tooled into the leather of the back of the fore-edge flap. Cover: Bordures, corner pieces, and central medallion of simple knotwork; gold dot punches; gilt; central medallion within lobed circle and two perndantsM retaken on flap. Large Maġribī Qur'ānic calligraphy. Black ink; with red (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow (hamza); verse markers and abgad in yellow2. Sura headings in Kūfī script, in yellow ink with red shadows (3D effect).

Entry author

Marina Santana