Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1435

Former shelfmark

Total pages

118 fols

Folio measures

200x145 mm

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

1195

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

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

A large part containing from Sura 14:27 to Sura 23:57, described as Juz' 7 (of 14) and Juz' 13 (of 28 parts). 118 fols of firm paper, 7 lines to the page. The script is a sueprb naskh. The first three pages, and folios 116b-117a, are illuminated in red and brown. The binding is dark-blue leather with red and gold sunk ornaments. Copyist: Abū Nu'aim ibn Ḥamza al-Baihaqī. Dated December 1195.

Entry author

Marina Santana