Type of description:

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Herzog August Bibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

13. 8. Ms. Aug. 4

Former shelfmark

Total pages

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Complete Qur'an. Owned by the famous Helmstedt Irenicist theologian Georg Calixt (1586-1656): "Ex Bibliotheca Georgi Calixti". No further marginalia. Before reaching Christian European hands, the Qur'an had belonged to a Waqf.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov