Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Cod.arab. 2

Former shelfmark

Cim. III, 1, b. membr.

Total pages

115 fols

Folio measures

26 x 21,5 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

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

1306

Released place

Other dates

1495

Other places

Tunis

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Vol. 1 of 12; 5 ʾaḥzāb; Q. 1-3:14 Binding: 26,5 x 23 x 4 cm. 7 lines per page. Patron: Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb (r. 1286-1307). Fol. 002r Endowment: Taḥbīs 8; Royal Endowment. Fol. 002v Owner's Mark: Widmannstetter. Parchment; European pagination: Latin numerals in black ink, upper left corner of recto. Restored leather binding (Munich 1980), original cover: star pattern, gilded lines; two bordues (knotwork) are framing an inner field, overall geometric design, star pattern, reciprocal, compartments filled with arabesque forms, gilt lines and gold dot punching Condition seems good; restricted Access. Large Maġribī script with illuminated headings in Kūfī; rasm: black ink, with red (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow (hamza). Carpet page, marginal vignettes, and verse markers illuminated. Dediacted to Marīnid prince, cf. finispiece in Cod.Arab. 3; Ḥafṣid endowment deed on fol. 2r ( taḥbīs 8); Tunis Booty 1535; Widmanstetter coll., cf. owner's mark on fol. 2v; 'Biblioteca Regia Monacensis' (acc. 1558), cf. stamp fol. 1r

Entry author

Marina Santana