Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1488

Former shelfmark

Total pages

333 fols

Folio measures

398x300 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

1468

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. 333 fols of firm paper, 12 lines to the pages. The script is a splendid naskh, 15th century. Folios 3b-4a are fully illuminated in gold and blue. The modern binding is flapped, dark-red leather. This copy was written for Mughlabāy ibn 'Abd Allāh al-Ibrāhīmī al-Malikī al-Ẓāhirī. Fol. 3a contains a donation noted dated 23 May 1468.

Entry author

Marina Santana