Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Present shelfmark

Pluteo 44.8

Former shelfmark

Total pages

137 fols

Folio measures

18 x 17,5 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1224

Released place

Other dates

1555

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

Fol. 137r

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Binding: 19 x 18,5 x 4,5 cm. Textblock: 12 x 11.5 cm. 23 lines per page. Inscription: Fol. 001r: Owner's Mark; Cossimo I de' Meddici / Mawlāy Aḥmad. Parchment; Gregory's rule. Binding from the Medicean library in red leather with chain. Maġribī minuscule script; black ink; with red (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow (hamza). Sura headings outlined in black with gold filling; headings in Kūfī script. Illuminations in gold; colophon copied in Maġribī ṯuluṯ. Copied in 1224; cf. finispiece on fol. 137r. The manuscript was given to Cosimo I Medici by Aḥmad ibn Uṯmān in 1555, Mawlay Aḥmad (r. 1543-1569); cf. mark on fol. 1r.

Entry author

Marina Santana