Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Collection

Arabe

Present shelfmark

Arabe 408

Former shelfmark

DCLXXVI (Rigault, 1622); 1079 (Dupuy); 453 (Regius); Ancien fonds arabe 173.

Total pages

III, 342, I 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

بسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَنِ ٱلرَّحيمِ (1:1)

Incipit position

fol. 2v

Explicit

مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ (114:6)

Explicit position

fol. 342v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1481

Released place

Turkey

Other dates

1671

Other places

Otranto

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Ḥafṣ

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Marginalia: (in red:) sajda, juz' and ḥizb and the word "ʿashr" rubricated marks in an irregular way the groups of ten verses. Codicological description: - Oriental paper: 264 × 182 mm; - 13 lines per page (exception made for ff° 2v and 3r: 7 lines); - lining by misṭara; - text area: 171 × 115 mm; - black ink; - catchword (taʿqība); - quinions; - Naskh. History of conservation: - waqf indicating date of constitution of volume: 1st Ṣafar 886/1st April 1481 in the mosque of Otranto's citadel (qalʿat Utūranda) by Sayyid ʿAlī; - people who have witnessed are: the Janissary (yenī čerī) Eliās and Darwīsh Jamāl al-Dīn (ff° 1v and 2r); - mention of waqf under and above the text (ff° 2v and 3r); - a western hand did add, in superior margin, a division in four books (just the first three are indicated) and in chapters (sūras); - signature of the gatherings (a letter, followed by a number on each folio) starting from the last folio, executed during the binding in the reign of Henri II; - note of reading by Buṭrus b. Diyāb al-Ḥalabī, of 1671 (folio 2r); - description in Latin by Herbelot, Barthélemy d' (1625-1695).

Entry author

Olivier Salem