Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Current_location

Institution

Herzog August Bibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

8. 11. Ms. Aug. 4.

Former shelfmark

Total pages

99 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

none

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Latin

Script

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

none

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Not applicable

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

HAB 8. 11. Ms. Aug. 4. is a hitherto unidentified copy of the so-called Lucaris Qur’an. It comprises of 99 fols in simple unadorned seventeenth-century Latin handwriting, bound separately. No title and nor indication of the identity of the copyist. It was identified by Friedrich Adolf Ebert (1831) simply as a collection of surahs in Latin. Several marginalia and underlines in red ink attest to its use by at least one reader.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov