Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1530

Former shelfmark

Total pages

31 fols

Folio measures

140x98 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

1568

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

(click me)

Bibliographical references

Arberry (1967). The Koran Illuminated. Handlist of the Korans in the Chester Beatty Library

Descriptive card

Suras 6, 73. 31 fols of firm paper, 9 (5) lines to the page. The script is (first part) a fine naskh and (second part) an elegant thulth alternately black and gold, within gold and coloured margins. The binding is Turkish, flapped dark-red leather with sunk gilt ornaments. Copyist: Yūsuf ibn 'Abd Allāh. Dated 7 October 1568.

Entry author

Marina Santana