Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Collection

Codices reginenses latini

Present shelfmark

Reg. lat. 314

Former shelfmark

Total pages

142 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

fols 106r-111r

Title on manuscript

Reg: 314

Title position

fol 1r

Attributed Title

Language

Latin

Script

Latin

Incipit

Incipit liber de adventum et gestis infelicissimi machumecti

Incipit position

fol 106r

Explicit

laus sit deuo in saecula saeculorum

Explicit position

fol 111r

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

900

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Contains a copy of the De Statu Sarracenorum. Peter Engels gives a detailled description of the ms in ENGELS P., Notitia de Machometo/ De Statu Sarracenorum, Echter Verlag Würzburg/ Oros Verlag Altenberge, 1992, pp. 126-129. (Corpus Islamo-Christianum. Series Latina; 4)

Entry author

Pierre Courtain