Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Plutei

Present shelfmark

Plut. 44.9

Former shelfmark

Total pages

II, 329, I' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

fols 1v-326r

Title on manuscript

مصحاف Alcoranus

Title position

Back cover

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

سُورَةُ الْفَاتِحَةُ الْكِتَابِ [كذا] بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ

Incipit position

1v

Explicit

الَّذِي يُوَسْوِسُ فِي صُدُورِ النَّاسِ مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ

Explicit position

326r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1575

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

تمت بعَوُن اِللهِ وَحَسن التَّوفيق تحريرًا في اَوَل خِر [كذا ولكن اواخر] شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ

Colophon position

326r

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Ḥafṣ

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

The codex was part of the private collection of the Medici Family and was stored in the Monastery of San Lorenzo, in the hall designed by Michelangelo and inaugurated in 1571. A title in Arabic script has been added on the back cover (olim front cover) of the Medicean bookbinding. After the Qur'anic text, 2 blank pages follow (fols 326v-327r) and a short text in Ottoman Turkish (fols 327v-328v) showing few religious invocations in Arabic.

Entry author

Sara Fani