Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Cod arab 56

Former shelfmark

BSB cod or 32

Total pages

I, 126, I fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

سورة فتحة الكتاب بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ (1:1)

Incipit position

2v

Explicit

وَهُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَكُمْ خَلَائِفَ الْأَرْضِ وَرَفَعَ بَعْضَكُمْ فَوْقَ بَعْضٍ دَرَجَاتٍ لِّيَبْلُوَكُمْ فِي مَا آتَاكُمْ ۗ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ سَرِيعُ الْعِقَابِ وَإِنَّهُ لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

Explicit position

126v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Warš

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Qur'anic codex in maghrebi/andalusi calligraphy. It contains the text of the Qur'an from the beginning to the sixth sura. It seems to represent the first volume of a Qur'an written on four distinct codex, which is a traditional division among Iberian Qur'an (Arias Torres, 2021). There is a filigree: an horizontal half-moon upon a sleeve, 45mm high, 20mm large. The biding is a type III with a breakthrough that damaged the first quarter of the folios. Vocalisation are in red and orange, the text is written in black. There is 13 lines/ folio. Manuscript from Widmanstetter library.

Entry author

Maxime Sellin