Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial

Collection

Present shelfmark

D 1258

Former shelfmark

Cas 1253

Total pages

79, II, I' fols

Folio measures

28 x 20.5 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

1475

Released place

Zaytuna Mosque, Tunis

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

Fol. 079v

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Vol. 6 of 10 (?); Q. 27-37 Binding: 29.5 x 21.5 x 2.5 cm. Paper with Watermarks. Textblock: 19 x 12.5 cm. 11 lines per page. Fol. 002v: Endowment; Tahbis 5. Three differents papers; thick, but fine, bright. Watermarks: bull's head (chain lines 2,6 cm; 20 laid lines = 20mm), shield (chain lines 3,4 cm), crown on rhombe with stakes; ruled: dry-point; in folio; quinions. Original leather cover glued to new binding. In very good condition. Large Maġribī Qur'ānic calligraphy. Black ink; with red (vowels), bright blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow (hamza); opening heading illuminated in gold. Sura headings in Kūfī script, in yellow ink with red shadows (3D effect). Endowment deed on fol. 1v (tahbis 5); Tunis booty; Mendoza coll.; another volume in the Ambrosiana collection

Entry author

Marina Santana