Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1504

Former shelfmark

Total pages

513 fols

Folio measures

292x192 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

1455

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

The Koran. 513 fols, 9 lines to the page. The script is a noble thulth, alif 2 cm high, and a fine naskh (1+3+1+3+1) with gold margins. The first two folios are fully illuminated in gold, blue and red. The bindfing is Turkish, flapped dark-red leather with gilt ornament and tooled borders. Copyist: Muḥammad ibn Ghaibī. Dated March 1455.

Entry author

Marina Santana