Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1546

Former shelfmark

Total pages

6 fols

Folio measures

523x360 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

1497

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

Pages from a Koran. 6 fols of firm paper, 9 lines to the page. The script is a majestic thulth, alif 1,9 gufh, with interlineary Persian translation in red naskh; in the first margin, variant reading in thulth and naskh; in the second margin, a Persian commentary. The first three page and folios 6b-6a are illuminated in gold, blue and various colours. The binding is modern, quarter-morocco. Copyist: Ṣadr ibn Bā Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm 'Fārsī'.

Entry author

Marina Santana