Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1499

Former shelfmark

Total pages

219 fols

Folio measures

347x248 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

Complete

Released date

1430

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

The Koran. 219 fols of firm paper, 15 lines to the page. The script is alternately a superb thulth, all gold, and a splendid black naskh (1+6+1+6+1). The first two pages are fully illuminated in gold, blue and various colours, and every page is decorated. The fine Turkish binding is flapped dark-brown leather, with sunk gilt ornaments. Copyist: 'Abd Allāh al-Harawī.

Entry author

Marina Santana