Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Helsinki University Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

[3]

Former shelfmark

Total pages

346 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

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

1834

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Aro (1958). Die Arabischen, Persischen und Türkischen Handschriften der Universtätsbibliothek zu Helsinki

Descriptive card

16 x 12, 14 x 7 cm, 15 lines. Deluxe binding with embossing and flaps. According to the text: "This was written by the humble and poor servant Al-Maqari al-Sharif al-Faqir Ahmad al-Hafiz. It was completed at the time of prayer before its performance, in the month of Sha’ban, in the year 1250 of the Hijri calendar, corresponding to 1834."

Entry author

Marina Santana