Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Collection

Arabe

Present shelfmark

Arabe 419

Former shelfmark

XXVII(?); 1864 (Dupuy); 450 (Regius); Ancien fonds arabe 180.

Total pages

II, 218, 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

وَأَيَّدْنَاهُ بٖرُوحِ الْقُدُسٖ أَفَكُلَّمَا جَآءَكُمْ رَسُولٌ بٖمَا لَا تَهْوَيۤ أَنفُسُكُمُ اسْتَكْبَرْتُمْ فَفَرِيقًا كَذَّبْتُمْ وَفَرٖيقًا تَقْتُلُونَ (2:87)

Incipit position

fol 1r

Explicit

مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ (114:6)

Explicit position

fol 218r

Preservation state

Acephalous

Released date

1401

Released place

Egypt

Other dates

1670

Other places

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: ḥizb in thuluth script. Codicological description: - Oriental paper; - 280 × 202 mm; - 13 lines (exception made for ff° 217v and 218r: 5 lines); - text area: 178 × 122 mm; - lining by misṭara; - black ink; - quinions; - French binding of Italian inspiration; - naskh. History of conservation: - signature of the gatherings (a letter for each of them, followed by a number on each folio) starting from the last folio, written during the execution of the binding in the reign of Henri II (cf. the Mss. Arabe 395, description 298; 408, description 451; 414, description 460; 1053 and 1077); - reading note by Buṭrus b. Diyab al-Ḥalabī, dated 1670 (fol. 1r). - note of reading by Buṭrus b. Diyāb al-Ḥalabī, of 1671 (folio 2r);

Entry author

Olivier Salem