Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliotekets Orientaliska

Collection

Present shelfmark

[6]

Former shelfmark

Total pages

293 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Script

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

[1500]

Released place

Other dates

1915

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Riedel (1923). Katalog över Kungl. Bibliotekets Orientaliska Handskrifter.

Descriptive card

Paper. 293 fols, 16.4 x 11.4 cm. The writing area typically: 8.2 x 5.2 cm. 15 lines, very small and fine nashi script. The text is framed with lines in gold, green, red, and blue. Headings and verse separators in gold. The margins are decorated with silver patterns everywhere. On leaves 2a, 2b, 290b, and 291a, there are beautiful vignettes. Undated; circa 1500. Beautiful example, in excellent condition. Leaf 1b is a pasted paper sheet containing a translation of the note on leaf 293b. Dark brown oriental leather binding with gold embossing, stored in a yellow leather pouch, with an old label affixed bearing the number: N. 5. The vignette on leaf 291b contains a note in Persian.

Entry author

Marina Santana