Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

University Library Erlangen

Collection

Present shelfmark

Ms. 1285

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

Complete

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Vienna

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

The preceding title page in Latin and German states that this Qur'an ms. was found in an Ottoman army tent outside Vienna in 1683. The anonymous hand also notes that the Qur'an had been published by Hinckelmann in Hamburg in 1694. A note in at the end of the codex (in a different hand) lists the titles of two Qur'anic publications: M.F. Beck's Specimen (1688) and Theodor Arnold's German rendering of Sales Qur'an trnaslation (1746). MS Al-Coranus S. Legis Islamiticae MVHAMEDIS Filii Abdallae Pseudoprophetae. Dieser Coran wurde bey der Belägerung [sic] Wien A.o 1683 in einem Türckischen Gezelt gefunden. H. D. Abraham Hinckelmann, hat diesen Coranum A.o 1694. zu Hamburg in 4.to in Druck heraugegeben, v[nd] in der Lateinischen Vorrede unter andern die Betrügereyen des Mahomedis kürzlich gezeiget. final page: Matth. Fried. Beck. Specimen. Arab. h.e. Bina Capitula Alcorani XXX. de Roma. & XLIIX. de Victoria è III. Codicibus Mss. Arabice descripta, Latine versa, & Notis Animadversionibusque locupleta 4.to Aug. Vindelic. 1688.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov