Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Riccardiana

Collection

Present shelfmark

Ricc 196

Former shelfmark

Cod. Ara. XXX

Total pages

103 fols

Folio measures

179 x 178

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Q. 19

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

[1401-1500]

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

103r

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Warš

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Vol. 4; Q. 19-29. Binding: 18 x 18,5 cm. Textblock: 12,5 x 11,5 cm. 10 lines per page. Fine, white parchment, rule of Gregory. Outer lines of the margins ruled; quires: tertions, quaternions. In good condition. Maġribī script. Brown ink; with magenta (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), and orange (hamza). Sura headingd outlined in black with yellow filling; headings in Kūfī script; gold illuminations; no opening page (first and last fols. blank). Owner marks on fol. I: Private Library of G. Battista Doni (1593-1647).

Entry author

Teresa Madrid,Marina Santana