Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Universiteitsbibliotheek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Or. 251

Former shelfmark

Ar. 251

Total pages

57, I, I' fols

Folio measures

16,5 x 16 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

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Q. 28:51-33:30; 3 'aḥzāb; and fragment of sura 39 from a different muṣḥaf (three last fols.). Binding: 17,5 x 17 x 2 cm. Textblock: 9,5 x 10 cm. 7 lines per page. Parchment; rule of Gregory; outer lines of margins ruled. In very good condition. Two fragments; two hands. [The second part: 16 x 16 (10x10) cm with gold.] Brown ink; with magenta (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow (hamza); illuminated with gold. Raphelengius coll.; Scaliger coll.

Entry author

Marina Santana