Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Gdansk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Collection

Present shelfmark

Ms 2344

Former shelfmark

HSB XI q. 1.

Total pages

96 fols

Folio measures

28,5 x 18

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

17/18 cent.

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Magnificent manuscript of the Koran. Writing uniform but tightly packed, not very clear nashi by turquoise hand red oriental leather strap with gold pressing. The first two pages are very richly and tastefully decorated with floral work on a gold and blue background. Both sides are covered by slila respectively. Yellow bars divided into three fields; In the middle field within a purple-bordered circle is the text of the first surah in white letters on a gold background and in the upper and lower areas, also on a gold background in medallion form, the title of the first surah is written, the whole thing surrounded by a linear ornament in red and blue like an embroidered border. The remaining pages are bordered with a wide gold and a narrow blue stripe. The headings of the surahs are written in white ink on a gold background, very delicate rosettes on the edge are used to designate the Ag'za (parts of the Koran) and their subdivisions, the verses are separated by gold dots. The manuscript comes from the Heinrich Schwarzwald Library

Entry author

Kasia Starczewska