Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1466

Former shelfmark

Total pages

341 fols

Folio measures

105x80 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

1278

Released place

Konya, TR

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

The Koran. 341 fols of firm paper, 15 lines to the page. The script is a small regular naskh. The first four and las eight pages are fully illuminated in gold and blue. The binding is brown leather with tooled arabesques. Six folios are mounted separately. Copyist: al-Ḥasan ibn Jūbān ibn 'Abd Allāh al-Qūnawī.

Entry author

Marina Santana