Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Beatty Library

Collection

Islamic Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1431

Former shelfmark

Total pages

282 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

بسٚــــْــــمِ اللهِ الرَّٚحْمَنِ الرَّٚحِيْمِ⸫ (1:1)

Incipit position

fol. 9v

Explicit

مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاْسِٚ⸫ (114:6)

Explicit position

fol. 283v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1000

Released place

Baghdad

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

صَٚدَقَ اللهُ العَظِيمُ الحَيُّ القَيُّومُ الحيُ لاَ أِلَهَ أِلا هُوَ وَبَلَّغَتِ اِلرّٚسٚـُلُ وَنَحنُ عَلَي مَا قَالَ رَبُّنَا وَمَولاَنَا مِنَ الشَّاهِدينَ وَصَٚلّي اللهُ عَلَي سَٚيّدِنَا نَبِيِّهِ مُحَمَّدٍ و وَعِترَٚتِهِ الطَّاهِرِٚينَ وسَٚلَّم عَلَيهِم أَجمَعِينَ وَلاَ قُوَّةَ أِلاَّ بِاللهِ رَٚبِّ العَالَمِينَ كَتَبَ هَذَا الجَامِعَ عَلِىُّ بنُ هِلَل بِمَدِينَهِ السَّٚلَمِ سَٚنَةَ أِحدَي وَثَلثمائهٍ حَامِدًا لِلهِ تَعَاْلَي عَلَي نِعَمِهِ وَمُصَلِيًا عَلَي نَبِيّهِ مُحَمّدٍ وَألِهِ وَمُسْٚتَغفِرًٚا مِن ذَنبِهِ

Colophon position

fol. 284r

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Ḥafṣ

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Entry author

Olivier Salem