Type of description:

From images

Typology

Translation

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Collection

Urbinati Latini

Present shelfmark

Urb. lat. 1384

Former shelfmark

Indice Urb. n. 273

Total pages

III, 88, II fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

fols 63v-88v

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic,Latin

Script

Arabic,Latin

Incipit

Ad illustrussimum Dominum fredericum Ducem Urbini S.R.E. uexilliferum. Guillelmi ramundi de moncata militis artium doctoris Surathilhagi Mahomedi Traductio. In nomine dei clementis et misericordis. Propinquum est hominibus iudicium eorum

Incipit position

fol 65r

Explicit

et vos eritis testes supra alios homines & surgite ad officia et date elemosinas & sperate in deo, ipse est dominus vester: et dominus optimus & dominus adiutor. Finis

Explicit position

fol 86r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1480

Released place

Urbino, Rome

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/BAV%2C%20Urb.%20Lat.%201384/library

Descriptive card

Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada presented this codex with the approval of Cardinal Cybo, future Pope Innocent VIII (1484-1492), successor of Sixtus IV, to the dedicatee Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. The finely decorated and illustrated manuscript contains two rare astrological texts, and the Qur'an in a new Arabic-Latin bilingual edition of the suras XXI (al-Anbiyāʼ, fols 65r-75v) and XXII (al-Ḥaǧǧ, fols 75v-86r). This text is followed by a philological appendix where Moncada notes some notions relating to the Qur'anic book. In the introductory dedication to Federico da Montefeltro (fols 63v-64v) Moncada promises a subsequent and complete edition of a quadrilingual Qur'an (Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and Chaldean, and perhaps also Turkish). Moncada had access to two Qur'anic codices present in the library of Federico da Montefeltro, a Maghrebi Qur'an (BAV, Vat. Ar. 212) and a Judeo-Arabic Qur'an (BAV, Vat. ebr. 357, fols 51r-156r) which shows traces of his translation and study. The codex was realized between Rome and Urbino and the translation was widespread in the Humanistic milieu as attested by the existing copies.

Entry author

Sara Fani