Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Present shelfmark

Orientali 234

Former shelfmark

Codex Palat.-Orient 234 (449); Assemani CCCCXLIX

Total pages

279, III, I' fols

Folio measures

20 x 14 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

Complete

Released date

Released place

Other dates

1491

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

Binding: 21 x 15 x 5 cm. Textblock: 16,5 x 10,5 cm. 21 lines per page. Inscription: Fol. IIIr: Owner's Mark. Paper in bad condition; partially restored; fols. 252-279 blank (and later?). Maġribī script; fol. 1 in later hand. Illumination only on fol. 251v. Sold in 897/1491; cf. note on fol IIIr.

Entry author

Marina Santana