Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze

Collection

Banco Rari

Present shelfmark

B.R. 343, n. 5

Former shelfmark

110

Total pages

I, 196, I' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

fols 1v-196r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمان الرحيم ملك يوم الدين اياك نعبدو واياك نستعين (Q 1:1)

Incipit position

fol 1v

Explicit

اعوذ برب الناس ملك الناس اله الناس من شر الوسواسي الخناسي الذي يوسوس في صدور الناس من الجنة والناس امين رب العالمين (Q 114:6)

Explicit position

fol 196r

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

1701

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Ḥafṣ

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/search/buonazia/titleCreatorYear/items/4WJNSGVJ/item-list

Descriptive card

It is an example of a miniature octagonal Qur'an, called rumḥī in Arabic, and sancak in Turkish, being the sancakdār the standard-bearers. These Qur'ans were attached to military flags or standards as talismans; with the same function, they could also be worn as personal apotropaic amulets. It is a small octagonal codex (mm 60 x 60), written in ġubar script, with fine decorations at the beginning and end of the text; it has a green leather bookbinding and is provided with a silver chiselled box with a lace to be hung or worn. It is not clear how it entered the library, but it is now preserved in a wooden box with other miniature codices.

Entry author

Sara Fani