Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Collection

Widmannstetter

Present shelfmark

Cod.arab 61

Former shelfmark

Cod.or. 9

Total pages

74, I, I' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Qurʾān - BSB Cod.arab. 61.; قرآن.

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1558

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

Descriptive card

Q. 19-26. Binding: 21 x 17 x 2 cm. Surface: 21 x 15 cm. Paper with Watermarks. Texblock: 16 x 10 cm. 10 lines per page. Paper; cut, last folio torn out; chain lines: 3,5 cm, 20 laid lines = 15 mm; watermark: glove with open fingers, 5-petalled flower. Fols. I&I' blank, fol. I glued to doublure (BSB). Leather binding. Cover: Bordure hexagonal motif B (1x1 cm); corner pieces formed with little crosses and three gold dots; central medallion knotwork in plain circle with gold dots attached (4 groups of 3 dots, and 4 single dots) with pendants cross knotwork (just as MS013). Leather turn-ins cover the leather doublure. Doublure with cut hinges attached to outer folios. Fragments of yellow and red endbands. Quires sewn on two stations with two more for endband sewing. No title on tail or cover. Slight water damage, binding broken; otherwise in good condition. Maġribī Qur'ānic calligraphy. Black ink; with magenta (vowels, sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and ochre (hamza); verse markers and abgad in okka. Widmannstetter coll.

Entry author

Marina Santana