Type of description:

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Herzog August Bibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Extrav. 239. 7

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

Apodous

Released date

Released place

Nové Zámky (Neuhäusel)

Other dates

Other places

Paris

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Like ms. 1349, this Qur'an too was looted in August 1685 by a certain captain Gerthumb of the Wolfenbüttel Bernstorff regiment. During the Napoleonic wars this Qur'an was taken to the Bibliothèque Impériale in Paris, where it was kept until 1815.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov