Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1500

Former shelfmark

Total pages

273 fols

Folio measures

258x190 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

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. 273 fols of firm paper, 15 lines to the page. The script is a very elegant naskh within gold margins, 15th century. The first three pages are fully illuminated in gold, blue and various colours. The Persian binding is dark-red leather with sunk ornaments, the inside decorated in gold and blue. A false colophon ascribes the copy to Yāqūt al-Musta'ṣimī.

Entry author

Marina Santana