Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1540

Former shelfmark

Total pages

306 fols

Folio measures

347x 233 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

1554

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. 306 fols of firm paper, 16 lines to the page. The script is a noble thulth, alternately gold and black, and a fine naskh (1+4+1+4+1+4+1), within gold margins, every page decorated. The first two pages are fully illuminated in gold, blue and various colours. The fine Persian binding is flapped dark-brown leather with sunk gilt panels, the inside elaborately decorated in gold and blue. Copyist: Maqṣūd 'Alī al-Sharīf al-Tibrīzī al-Maftūlband. Illuminator: Bābā al-Tibrīzī. Dated February 1554.

Entry author

Marina Santana