Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1558

Former shelfmark

Total pages

445 fols

Folio measures

42 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

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. 445 fols of firm paper, 11 lines to the page. The script is a superb thulth, alif 2 cm high, alternately gold and blue, and a noble naskh (1+4+1+4+1), every page being finely decorated, 16th century. The first six and last three pages are fully illuminated in gold, blue and various colours. The fine Persian binding is flapped black leather with sunk gold ornaments, the inside light brown with sunk gold ornament. Copyist: Rūzbihān Muḥammad al-Ṭab'ī al-Shīrāzī.

Entry author

Marina Santana