Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1547

Former shelfmark

Total pages

322 fols

Folio measures

424x300 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

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

The Koran 322 fols of firm paper, 13 lines to the page. The script is a splendid thulth alif 2 cm high and a noble naskh, all black within gold margins, every page decorated, 16th century. The first and last two pages are fully illuminated in gold and blue. The fine Persian binding is flapped dark-red leather with sunk gold ornaments. Folio 322b contains seals of Muḥammad Shāh (1131-63/1718-48) and Ālamgīr II (1167-73/1753-9).

Entry author

Marina Santana