Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Nacional de España

Collection

Present shelfmark

Ms. 5238/12

Former shelfmark

Gg. 258.12

Total pages

22 fols

Folio measures

156x105

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

20r-20v

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

87:1

Incipit position

20r

Explicit

87:19

Explicit position

20v

Preservation state

Apodous

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

No

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Warš

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/BNE%205238%2F12/library

Descriptive card

Surah al-ʾAʿlā from an Iberian Qur'an (9 lines) from the 16th century. The shelfmark of this manuscript includes eight different qur'anic manuscripts.

Entry author

Patricia Díaz