Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1561

Former shelfmark

Total pages

435 fols

Folio measures

32,8x20 cm

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

1713

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. 435 fols of firm paper, 12 lines to the page. The script is a splendid naskh with gold margins, surrounded by a Persian commentary in elegant nasta'līq, decorated. Folios 3b-5a are fully illuminated in gold and various colours. The binding is Persian, black morocco with gilt ornaments. Copyist: Aḥmad al-Nairizī. Illuminator: 'Abd Allāh ibn Muṭṭalib Mustaufī al-Shīrāzī. Dated March 1713.

Entry author

Marina Santana