Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1417a

Former shelfmark

Total pages

47 fols

Folio measures

120x92 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Persian

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

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

Juz' 3. 47 fols of firm vellum, 8 lines to the page. The script is upright and regular; fully pointed and vocalized after the naskh fashion, in red and black. Verse-endings are indicated by a crude circular ornament. Alif, sometimes crooked and both ends, is 0,8 cm right. The binding is fairly modern, flapped brown leather. The script appears to have no near parallel.

Entry author

Marina Santana