Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Collection

Oriental Collection

Present shelfmark

Arab O. 036

Former shelfmark

Total pages

77 fols

Folio measures

140×90mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Enʿām-i şerīf. [أنعام شریف]

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1737

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

Dévényi, Kinga, Munif Abdul-Fattah, and Katalin Fiedler, eds. Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Islamic Manauscripts and Books 9. Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2016

Descriptive card

A so-called Anʿām-collection containing a specific selection from the Koran, dated 1149/1736–1737. The manuscript includes the following sūras: 6 al-Anʿām, 36 Yā-Sīn, 44 al-Duḫān, 48 al-Fatḥ, 50 Qāf, 55 al-Raḥmān, 56 al-Wāqiʿa, 67 al-Mulk, 78 al-Nabaʾ, 112 al-Iḫlāṣ, 113 al-Falaq, 114 al-Nās and 1 al-Fātiḥa (fols. 1v–55v); the 99 names (al-asmāʾ al-ḥusnā) of Allāh (fols. 56r–57v); the 99 names (al-asmāʾ al-šarīfa) of Prophet Muḥammad (fols. 57v–59v) and his physical description (fols. 60v–61r); the benefit of the Prophet’s names and the names of the aṣḥāb al-kahf (the seven sleepers) in Ottoman Turkish (61v–62v); prescriptions concerning rituals and praying related to the Meccan pilgrimage in Ottoman Turkish with inserted prayers in Arabic (fols. 63v–76v); on fol. 77r–v a prayer before meals (Duʿāʾ ṭaʿām) in Arabic; on fol. 1r recipe and prayer for healing in Ottoman Turkish; fols. 60r, 63r are left blank. 77 folios; 9 lines per page; page dimensions: 140×90mm, text dimensions: 90×50mm; illuminated headpiece on fol. 2v in gold, red, mauve, pink, and orange ink; full leather binding; with gilded almond-shaped centerpiece; with missing flap; marbled paper doublure; in good condition; paper: laid paper with watermarks; script: nasḫī; ink: black; diagonal catchwords in black ink; headings in red ink; frames in gold ink, the verse boundaries on fols. 2v–55v in gold ink, fully vocalized; flyleaves. The manuscript was donated to the Library at the town of Károlyfejérvár in Transylvania [today: Alba Iulia, Romania] by Ágoston Ötvös (1811–1861), corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Its contents were first described in detail by Antal Gévay (1797–1845), member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and archivist of the emperor in Vienna (on the first flyleaf, written upside down).

Entry author

Marina Santana