Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Translation

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Collection

Latin manuscripts

Present shelfmark

Vat. lat. 2923

Former shelfmark

Total pages

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Latin

Script

Latin

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1458

Released place

Aiton

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Not applicable

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Copied down in May 1458 by one of the "four or five scribes" working for Juan de Segovia at the Aiton monastery, Savoy. Extensive collection of Juan de Segovia's works on Islam and the conversion of Muslims, including the Latin preface to the trilingual edition of the Qur'an (lost). Abundant quotations of the Qur'an from Robert of Ketton's Latin translation. Fragments of Segovia and Yça Gidelli's new translation included in the preface to the trilingual Qur'an.

Entry author

Davide Scotto