Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze

Collection

Banco Rari

Present shelfmark

B.R. 206

Former shelfmark

B.A. 6, p. 2, no. 2

Total pages

I, 308, I' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

fols 2v-306r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ (1:1)

Incipit position

fol. 2v

Explicit

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

Explicit position

fol. 306r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1818

Released place

Turkey

Other dates

1869

Other places

Cairo

Colophon

كتبه الفقير السيد مصطفى العزتي عن خلفاء مصطفى الواصف بتربة دار سلطان عبد الحميد خان عليه الرحمة الباري سنة ١٢٣٤

Colophon position

fol. 307r

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

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/BNCF%2C%20B.R.%20206/library

Descriptive card

It is an Ottoman calligraphic copy of the Qur'an, possibly copied by the famous calligrapher Muṣṭafā al-ʻIzzatī, in Istanbul in 1818-1819. The doubts are based on the fact that the colophon is written in a folio added to the main codicological unit (fol 307), but showing possibly the same hand of the text. In 1869 the codex was donated, together with other Arabic manuscripts and printed editions, to the King of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II (1820-1878) by the Italian typographer Mosè Castelli (1816-1884) who was active in Cairo since 1832.

Entry author

Sara Fani