Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1450

Former shelfmark

Total pages

79 fols

Folio measures

272x232 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

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

A fragment containing from Sura 13:18 to the end of Sura 18, described in the colopgon as Juz' 6. 79 fols of firm vellum, 9 lines to the page. The script is a splendid maghribī; alif being 1,5 cm high; the vowels marked in blue, red, yellow and green, 13th century. The first page is fully illuminated in gold and blue. The binding is fairly modern, flapped red leather with sunk gilt ornaments.

Entry author

Marina Santana