Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1578

Former shelfmark

Total pages

302 fols

Folio measures

16,4x10,6 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

1845

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. 302 fols of thin paper, 15 lines to the page. The script is a neat naskh, with gold margins. The first two pages are fully illuminated in gold and various colours. The binding is Turkish, solid silver ornamented in ivory and colours. Copyist: al-Saiyid 'Umar al-Nūrī ibn 'Alī, pupil of Muḥammad al-Ḥamdī.

Entry author

Marina Santana