Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Others

Current_location

Institution

Staatsbibliothek zu berlin preußischer

Collection

Present shelfmark

Phillipps 1389

Former shelfmark

Stern. no. 1389 / Ahlwardt 10348.2

Total pages

178, I, I fols

Folio measures

29 x 21 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

Collège des Jésuites de Paris

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Content: History: Anon.: Taḏkirāt al-Qurṭūba. Binding: 29 x 22 x 2,4 cm. Textblock: 21 x 13 cm. Paper with Watermarks. 24 lines per page. Inscription: Fol. 178v: Owner0s Mark; Guillaume Postel. Papel, solid, smooth; fol. 1 & 178 colured red. Chain lines 3,5 cm, 20 laid lines = 20 mm; watermark: hand with 6-petaled flower and small circle. Binding restored (Berlin 1930); Original cover pasted on new leather: Border, corner pieces, central medallion (in plain circle) of knotwork, gold dot punching. Flap complements central medallion. Title on tail. Weisweiler uses this MS as example of cover type 17. In good condition. Maġribī bookhand. Blackish-brown inki with highlights in (bright) red and magenta, yellow fol. 2v. Postel coll; Collège des Jésuites de Paris; Phillipps coll. Many owner marks in Arabic ff. 1r-2r-

Entry author

Marina Santana