Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

cod. arab. 47

Former shelfmark

Codices orientales 188

Total pages

474 fols

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

Constance

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Entire Qur’an in European hand. Black ink, surah titles in red. This Qur’an was copied out by a certain Philipp Berniger (Peringer) of Constance who had previously been in Ottoman captivity for fourteen years. The colophon gives his name as copyist and the year 1630. It is almost certain that this ms. was later owned and consulted by the Augsburg orientalist Matthias Friedrich Beck for his Qur'anic Specimen arabicum (1688).

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov