Type of description:

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Herzog August Bibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

133. 2. Extr. 4

Former shelfmark

Total pages

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Nové Zámky (Neuhäusel)

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

A note in German (seventeenth-century hand) states that this Qur’an had been taken at the capture of the Ottoman fortress in Nové Zámky (Neuhäusel) in 1685. The colonel (Obrist Lieutenant) of the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel regiment, von Wolfsramsdorff had received this Qur’an from Major zu Fuß. In 1690, von Wolfsramsdorff was no longer alive. His brother giftet the Qur’an to the Ducal library in Wolfenbüttel. Dießeß Buch hatt H. Obrist Lieutenant Von Wolfsramsdorf Seel: in Anno 168[5] bey eroberung und bestürmung Neu Häußel alß damahlß Hochfürstl. Braunschweigisch-Wolfenbüttelischer Vom Bermdorffischen Regiment wohl bestelten Major zu Fuß, bekommen, wird alßo in unteethänigster devotion in die Hochfürstl. Bibliothec überreichet dem 26en Aprilis 1690 zu Braunschweig. Von deßen Bruder G: F: V. W: T: O: R

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov