Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1533

Former shelfmark

Total pages

378 fols

Folio measures

85x60 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

1479

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

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. 378 fols of thin paper, 11 lines to the page. The script is a small, fina naskh within gold margins. The binding is Turkish, flapped dark-brown leather with gold tooling and ornament. Copyist: Aḥmad ibn al-Sirāj al-Tibrīzī.

Entry author

Marina Santana