Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1623

Former shelfmark

Total pages

Folio measures

70 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

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

1572

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

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 in the form of a scroll. The scroll measures 7 cm wide, the paper thin. The script is a minute naskh within gold, blue and black margins, forming at times patterns of words, being Shī'ite blessings and proverbial sayings. Copyist: Muẓaffar ibn 'Abd Allāh al-Ḥusainī al-Mazandarānī. Dated 980 (1572-3)

Entry author

Marina Santana