Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1452

Former shelfmark

Total pages

52 fols

Folio measures

310x233 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

Juz' 8. 52 fols of firm papers, 5 lines to the page. The script is a majestic naskh (alif 2 cm high) with gold and coloured margins, every page decorated and the borders with gold floral sprays, 14th century. Folios 1b-2a are fully illuminated in gold, blue and various colours. The fine Turkish binding is flapped dark-red leather qwith gilt sunk ornaments, the inside decorated in various colours. The colophon is in the name of Yāqūt al-Musta'ṣimī.

Entry author

Marina Santana