Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Others

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque Nationale

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS 15072

Former shelfmark

Ahmadiyya 5452

Total pages

178, III, III' fols

Folio measures

30 x 23 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

1840

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Ahmadiyya, Tunis

Colophon

Colophon position

Fol. 178r

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Mu'awiyya Darhallī: al-Manṣurī fī al-bayzara; part 4. Binding: 31,5 x 24 x 6 cm. Surface: 30 x 23 cm. Textblock: 22,5 x 15 cm. 9 lines per page. Patron: 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad al-Mustanṣir (r. 1249-1277). Inscriptions: Fol. 001r: Dedication (to the Royal Ḥafṣid Hizāna). Thick paper; 20 laid lines = 28 mm, very irregular, perpendicular to spine; quinions. Binding is new, but the wholes from the original spine lining are visible with 1,5 cm distance from the spine (just as Ex-Vind. Corano 1.1, Ex.-Vind. Corano 1.2-20, Orientali 259, Orientali 260 and Orientali 275). In good condition. Large Maġribī script, stylised bookhand. Brown ink, with magenta (vowels) and blue (sukkūn, šadda); highlights in gold and blue. Chrysography for title (with red and blue shadows, 3D effect), same script as main text; accompanied by ornamental marginal vignette. Dedication to the hizāna of Muḥammad 'AbdAllāh al-Mustanṣir (r. 1249-1277) on fol. 1r; colophon without further indication on fol. 178r. Endowment to the Ahmadiyya, cf. fol 1r. Some marginal notes. The year 645 H is noted in a modern hand on fol. 178v, but not confirmed in the text.

Entry author

Marina Santana