Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1557

Former shelfmark

Total pages

370 fols

Folio measures

55,5x38,7 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

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

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

Suras 1-18. 370 fols of firm paper, 9 lines to the page. The script is large, bold naskh (alif is 2 cm high), with a Persian commentary on the margins in a neat nasta'līq, 17th century. The first three pages are fully illuminated in gold and various colours. The binding is Indian, red morocco with simple ornaments.

Entry author

Marina Santana