Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Gdansk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Collection

Present shelfmark

Ms 2343

Former shelfmark

XI q. 93.

Total pages

325 fols

Folio measures

30:20

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

1639

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Copy completed in Muharram 1049 h. (May 1639) Writing large and clear Nashi, vocalized; Headings and decorations red. The first two pages of the book are decorated with red lines, the following 68 pages are simply bordered in red, the rest without any decoration, oriental leather binding with the flap.The scribe names himself as Hasan ibn Hussain al-Balgradi.

Entry author

Kasia Starczewska