Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Plutei

Present shelfmark

Plut. 44.5

Former shelfmark

Total pages

II, 358, II' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

هذا قرآن شريف

Title position

Back cover (olim front)

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ

Incipit position

fol 1v (olim 358r)

Explicit

قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ مَلِكِ النَّاسِ إِلَهِ النَّاسِ مِن شَرِّ الْوَسْوَاسِ الْخَنَّاسِ الَّذِي يُوَسْوِسُ فِي صُدُورِ النَّاسِ مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ

Explicit position

fol 358v (olim 1r)

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1451

Released place

Other dates

1522

Other places

Rome

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Others

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/BML%2C%20Plut.%2044.5

Descriptive card

A title in Arabic script has been added on the back cover (olim front cover) of the Medicean bookbinding. The manuscript was part of the original nucleus of the Laurenziana Library, namely the private collection of the Medici family, which was finally stored in the Monastery of San Lorenzo, in the hall designed by Michelangelo, and inaugurated in 1571. The collection had been transferred several times before that date and hosted in different Florentine institutions (the Monastery of San Marco, and others) after the Medici's expulsion from the city. From San Marco, it was moved to Rome, acquired on behalf of cardinal Giovanni de' Medici (future pope Leo X). In 1522 cardinal Giulio de' Medici (future pope Clemente VII) sent it back to Florence where the Laurenziana library was then completed under the auspices of Cosimo I de' Medici.

Entry author

Sara Fani