Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1586

Former shelfmark

Total pages

327 fols

Folio measures

18,2x11,5 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

1848

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. 327 fols of thin paper, 15 lines to the page. The script is a fine naskh with gold margins. The first four and last two pages are fully illuminated in gold and various colours. The fine Turkish binding is dark-red morocco, flapped, cut out and pointed in gold and colours. Copyist: al-Ḥājj al-Saiyid Muṣṭafā 'Izzat 'al-Imām al-Thānī', pupil of al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafā al-Wāṣif. Dated May 1848. This copy was written for Sultan 'Abd al-Majīd (reigned 1255-77/1839-61).

Entry author

Marina Santana