Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Herzog August Bibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Helmst. 1149

Former shelfmark

1204

Total pages

Folio measures

octavo

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

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

Helmstedt

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

While the Qur'an bears no marginalia, its erstwhile owner, Johann Georg Wanner added the following note: Ipsißimus hic Corani, hoc est, Muhammedanae Legis liber est : scripturâ quidem sacris Arabum propriâ, sed eò expreßâ molliùs ac formâ portatili conditus; ut commeantium itineri serviat. Quales Hymnorum et Portularum, hoc est, orationum Gentis illius libri circumferuntur paßim ; Alcorani opus rarius : nec ante mihi hactenus, tàm parvo cúltú [sic] visum. Sed festinatio scribentem saepe egit praecipitem; atquè ideò solliciti lectoris curam postulat. [fol. 2r] Johannes Georgius Wanner Anno d. 1602 From 1618 until its closure in 1810 this Qur'an belonged ot the University of Helmstedt. The final folio was inserted. It is paper rather than parchment -- and the Arabic is in a European hand.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov