Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1550

Former shelfmark

Total pages

391 fols

Folio measures

310x185 mm

Material composition

Writing support

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. 391 fols, 11 lines to the page. The script is an excellent naskh with gold margins, the commentary of Ḥusain Wā'iẓ Kāshifī in elegant nasta'līq in the margin, 17th century. The first two folios are fully illuminated in gold, blue and various colours. The binding is Persian, flapped dark-brown leather, gilt. Copyist: Shāgird.

Entry author

Marina Santana