Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Cod.arab. 62

Former shelfmark

Cod.or 89

Total pages

67 fols

Folio measures

21 x 15 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Qurʾān - BSB Cod.arab. 62.; قرآن.

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

Descriptive card

Q. 37:145-41:45. Binding: 21 x 16 x 2,5 cm. Surface: 21 x 15 cm. Paper with Watermarks. Textblock: 16 x 10,5 cm. 7 lines per page. Inscription: Fol. 001v: Owner's Mark. Paper; chain lines 3,9 cm, 29 laid lines = 20 mm; watermark: glove with closed fingers and six-pointed star (in between chain lines); in quarto, quinions. Sewn on leather doublure, functioning as spine lining; leather turn-ins cover leather doublures. Fragments of yellow and red endbands. Quires sewn on two stations. Cover: Simple tooled (no gold), bordures: simple knotwork of rhombes; corner pieces of small crosses (cf. other covers), same crosses used to build the central medallion (rhombus); flap design: four crosses build one square. Maġribī. Black ink; with magenta(vowels, sukkūn, šadda). Sura headings and verse markers illuminated in red, green and yellow. Widmannstetter coll.

Entry author

Marina Santana