Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal

Collection

Anciens fonds : manuscrits latins

Present shelfmark

Arsenal 1162

Former shelfmark

105 H. L

Total pages

III, 178, II fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

folio 1r, folios 1r-3v, folios 3v-4v, folio 5r, folios 5r-10v, folios 11r-18v, folios 19r-25v, folios 26r-138r, folios 138r-139v, folios 140r-146r, folios 146r-177v

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Traduction du Coran de Pierre le Vénérable, et écrits contre la religion des Mahométans

Language

Latin

Script

Latin

Incipit

Si uis scire quis fuerit uel quid docuerit

Incipit position

folio 1r

Explicit

sit nobis Deus adiutor et protector et procurator benignus in omnibus. Amen.

Explicit position

fol 177v

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

1151

Released place

France

Other dates

Other places

Spain

Colophon

Explicit episola (sic) christiani contra legem sarracenorum

Colophon position

folio 178r

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Since Marie-Thérèse d’Alverny’s 1948 article, the ms. Arsenal 1162 is considered as the original codex of Peter the Venerable's Corpus Islamolatinum.

Entry author

Florence Ninitte