Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Beatty Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1584

Former shelfmark

Total pages

212 fols

Folio measures

15x10 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

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

1832

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

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

The Koran. 212 fols of thin paper, 15 lines to the page. The script is a neat naskh with gold margins. The first two and last two pages are fully illuminated in gold and various colours, the last two with flowers centre. The binding is Turkish, flapped dark-brown morocco, gilt and tooled. Copyist: al-Saiyid Muṣṭafā al-Ḥilmī, pupil of Uthmān Efendī 'Dāmād al-'Afīf'. Dated May 1832.

Entry author

Marina Santana