Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1413

Former shelfmark

Total pages

19 fols

Folio measures

14,3x21,5 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

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

Fragments from Sura XLII to Sura XLV. 19 fols of firm vellum, 12 lines to the pages. The script is upright and regular; vowels are marked in red and green. Verse-endings are indicated by a pearshaped ornament. Alif is 1 cm high. The binding is Turkish, flapped brown leather with the sunk gilt ornaments.

Entry author

Marina Santana