Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

British Library

Collection

Harleian

Present shelfmark

Harl 5491

Former shelfmark

O.R. 30 A.e.

Total pages

37, I, I' fols

Folio measures

20,5 x 14,5 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

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

Fol. 37v

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Guz' 26; Q. 46-51:30. Binding: 21,5 x 16 x 1,5 cm. Surface 20,5 x 14,5 cm. Textblock: 15,5 x 9,5 cm. 9 lines per page. Inscription: fol. o37v: Owner's Mark. Paper with watermark (hand with five petalled flower); tertions. Cover: Bordure with motif A/B; corner pieces of little crosses and gold dots; central medallion in plain circle of same knotwork with two pendants and adj. triple pyramids of gold dots. Large Maġribī Qur'ānic calligraphy. Black ink; with red (vowels), turqoise (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow (hamza); verse markers and abgad in ochre. Heading same script as rasm, outlined in brown, filled in yellow. Colophon on fol. 37v: 'Abd al-Aziz (?). Harleian Collection.

Entry author

Marina Santana