Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Orientali

Present shelfmark

Or. 138

Former shelfmark

443, XI

Total pages

II, 286, V' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

fols 1r-286v

Title on manuscript

Alcoranus elegantissime Scriptus, deest quid priam initio prima scilicet surata et initium secunda.

Title position

fol IIr

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

مُلْكِ سُلَيْمَانَ وَمَا كَفَرَ سُلَيْمَانُ وَلَكِنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُعَلِّمُونَ النَّاسَ السِّحْرَ (Q 2:102)

Incipit position

fol 1r

Explicit

الَّذِي يُوَسْوِسُ فِي صُدُورِ النَّاسِ مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ (Q 114:6)

Explicit position

fol 286v

Preservation state

Acephalous

Released date

1551

Released place

Other dates

1584

Other places

Rome

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Ḥafṣ

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/BML%2C%20Or.%20138,BML%2C%20Or.%20422/library

Descriptive card

The codex was part of the collection of Oriental manuscripts related to the activities of the Typographia Medicea, founded in Rome in 1584 by Cardinal Ferdinando de 'Medici and Pope Gregory XIII, which converged into the Palatine Library of the Medici family in Florence (Pitti Palace) in 1670. In 1771 a part of its codices, including this one, passed to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, inaugurated in 1571 by Cosimo I de 'Medici, into which the oldest book collection belonging to the family was kept. The codex is dated according to the watermarks, but with no exact correspondence with the repertoires. Some suras have less common titles. These are added in red by the same copyist of the text, who also added the red marks at the end of the verses, the jadwal tracing the writing frame, and the textual partitions on the margins.

Entry author

Sara Fani