Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

University Library Erlangen

Collection

Present shelfmark

ms. 1308

Former shelfmark

cod. mss. chart. No. 156

Total pages

Folio measures

small octavo

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

Complete

Released date

Released place

Other dates

1789 and 1835

Other places

Belgrade

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Decorated collection of suras. Attached note with list of suras: 1, 6, 36, 48, 55, 56, 67, 78, 110, 111, 112, 113. Purchased for Erlangen in 1835: Von Herrn Amtmann Sommer dahier erkauft um 3 f. 1835. A further, earlier note states that the codex was acquired in 1789 during the conquest of Belgrade.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov