Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Collection

Arabe

Present shelfmark

Arabe 454

Former shelfmark

Séguier D 2 (1657); Saint-Germain 280; Supplément arabe 121.

Total pages

II, 402, 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

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمۤنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ (1:1)

Incipit position

fol. 1v

Explicit

مِنَ الجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ (114:6)

Explicit position

fol. 402v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1475

Released place

Turkey

Other dates

1732

Other places

Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris

Colophon

Colophon position

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

Marginalia: the word "ʿashr", written in gold letters, indicates, irregularly, the groups of ten verses; sajda and divisions in juz' and in ḥizb are indicated in red ink. Codicological description: - Oriental paper; - 164 × 106 mm; - 13 lines per page (exception made for ff° 1v: 8 lines, and 2r: 7 lines); - black ink; - text area: 95 × 55 mm; - catchwords (sing. taʿqība); - quinions; - Oriental binding with missing flap; - naskh. History of conservation: - it comes from the library Séguier-Coislin, donated in 1732 to the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Entry author

Olivier Salem