Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Cod.arab. 1112

Former shelfmark

Cod.arab. 1112

Total pages

I, 185, I fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Golden Qur'an

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

سورة الفاتحة سبع ايات

Incipit position

2v

Explicit

مِنَ ٱلْجِنَّةِ وَٱلنَّاسِ (114:6)

Explicit position

185 r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Ḥafṣ

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Qur'an complete copied with black ink, in naskhi style, on palm leaf painted in gold. Fully vocalised in black ink, with golden and white rosette to separate the verses. Titles are in kufic, copied in dark blue ink (lapis lazuli). The pages has been croped due to the restoration. Another binding has been put. Acquired in 1967 by the BSB of Munich. It may be a seljuki Qur'an, copied between the 11th to the 12th century according to the library catalogue.

Entry author

Maxime Sellin