Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Cod arab 2

Former shelfmark

Cimelia III, 1, b.

Total pages

115 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

فتحة الكتاب سبع ايات

Incipit position

fo 3 v

Explicit

زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوَاتِ (3:14)

Explicit position

114 v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1306

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

BSB cod.arab 3

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Warš

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Squared sized volume Qur'an (26 x 21,5 cm) introduced and concluded by a magnificient decoration. It is the first volume of a Qur'an in twelve volumes made in 1306 for the Moroccan Merinid ruler Abū Ya'qūb Yūsuf ibn Ya'qūb (reigned 1286-1307). Titles are in Kufi scripts. The text is in a large somptious andalusi/maghrebi script. Vocalisation in red, shadda and sukun in blue. Seven lines per pages. Gold is used for some important formulas (ex: There is no God but Allah) and to delimitate the verses.

Entry author

Maxime Sellin