Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1405

Former shelfmark

Total pages

3 fols

Folio measures

27,6x36,7 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

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

Released place

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

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

Descriptive card

A small fragment containing Sura 2:57-95. 3 folios on firm, deep blue vellum, 15 lines to the page. The very beautiful script is executed in gold and is unvocalized. Verse-endings are marked with circular ornaments. Alif is 1,2 cm high. The binding is modern, dark-green leather. Plate in fol. 1b kufic.

Entry author

Marina Santana