Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1455

Former shelfmark

Total pages

155 fols

Folio measures

475x350 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

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

The Koran. 155 fols of firm paper, 17 lines to the page. The script is alternately large thulth and medium naskh (1+7+1+7+1), the thulth being iscribed in gold, alif 2 cm high. The first and three and last three pages are fully illuminated in gold, blue and various colours. The binding is fairly modern, dark-red leather with tooled ornaments. This copy was execvuted on the order of al-Malik al-Nāṣir (reigned 1347-1351 and 1354-1361).

Entry author

Marina Santana