Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1402

Former shelfmark

Total pages

10 fols

Folio measures

18,3x25 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

Acephalous,Apodous,Complete,Lacunous

Released date

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

Arberry (1967). The Koran Illuminated. Handlist of the Korans in the Chester Beatty Library

Descriptive card

A fragment containing from Sura 8:!57 to 9:31. 10 folios of firm vellum, 14 lines to the page. The script is upright and very regular; vowels are marked in red and black, and some diacritical points have been added. Verse-endings are not marked. Alif is 0,5 cm high. The binding is modern, green leather. Comparable scripts are Della Vida VIm Munajjed 4 (2), Vajda 6a. Plate monochrome fol. 8b. Kufic.

Entry author

Marina Santana