Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Orientali

Present shelfmark

Or. 290a

Former shelfmark

470 fols

Total pages

88 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

fols 1r-88v

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

بسملة \ الحمد لمن منّ علينا بهداته وثبت الانبيا بمعجزاته اما بعد يقول العبد الحقير المحتاج الي رحمته ربّ القدير احمد التنوسي لما انطلقت الي الحجمع قافلة المصر في السنة تسعمايه واربعين

Incipit position

1r

Explicit

ا ـ او بدءنا التكلم من هذه الاشياء المفيدة وكذا لازمة لخلاص اوواحنا او عولك لكيما لانسكت لكن الان نقف لنستريح بسم الله مع السلامة

Explicit position

88v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1560

Released place

Rome

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Not applicable

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/559HTU6W/tags/Mu%E1%B9%A3%C4%81%E1%B8%A5aba%20r%C5%AB%E1%B8%A5%C4%81niyya/collection;

Descriptive card

This codicological unit is part of a composite codex; both its codicological units pertain to the collection gathered by Giovanni Battista Raimondi for the Typographia Medicea (in particular the second was property of Cardinal San Giorgio, Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini, as stated by Raimondi's hand at fol. 89r). The witness, not identified before, transmits the recension of the text that includes a short introduction mentioning the author (Aḥmad al-Tanūsī, one of the two speakers) and date in which the dialogue took place (940H). In Assemani's catalog (n. CCCCLXXIII, pp. 468-469), it is described as autograph, but with no clear evidence. The watermark similar to Piccard n. 42383 dates it around the 1570s.

Entry author

Sara Fani