Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Collection

Arabe

Present shelfmark

Arabe 407

Former shelfmark

Le Tellier 4; 453 (Regius); Ancien fonds arabe 172.

Total pages

II, 388, II 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 ٱلرَّحيم (1:1)

Incipit position

fol 1v

Explicit

مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِؕ (114:6)

Explicit position

fol 388v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1504

Released place

Iran

Other dates

1642, 1737

Other places

Reims

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Ḥafṣ

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Marginalia: sajda (rubricated); juz' (golden letters), followed by numeration in letters and numbers in black ink. Codicological description: - oriental paper: 317 × 222 mm; - 10 lines per page (exception made for ff° 1v and 2r: 6 lines); - text area: 198 × 140 mm; - black ink; - catchwords (sing. taʿqība); - Quaternions; - Naskh. Content presentation: - Unreadable note, by a Persian hand, dated 8 Rajab 910 (unity number is not sure)/15 December 1504; - the manuscript was property of Fouquet; History of conservation: - it comes from the library of Maurice Tellier (1642-1737), archbishop of Reims, FR.

Entry author

Olivier Salem