Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

British Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

Add MS 11638

Former shelfmark

Total pages

136 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

,Acephalous,Apodous,Complete,Lacunous

Released date

1306

Released place

Tunis

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

Fol. 135r

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Vol. 4 of 4; Q 38:1-114. Scribe: Muḥammad b. Ḥassan b. Aḥmad al-Azdī. Endowed in 1316 to Tunis. Surface: 19x18 cm. Textblock: 13x13 cm. 11 lines per page. Large Maġribī Qur'ānic calligraphy. Blackish-brown ink; with red (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow (hamza); versemakers, marginal vignettes, and opening heading illuminated in gold. Left side of a carpet page in the opening page with geometrical design. Sura headings and colophon in Kūfī script, chrysography. Earliest dated manuscript surely produced in Tunis in Maġribī script; copied 706/1306; cf. colophon fol. 135r. Fol. 3v bears the worn-out signature of A. Widmanstetter. Fol. 1r "Purch. of Rodd 8 July 1839 Sotheby's Lot 245 6 July"; Acquired by the British Library in 1839.

Entry author

Marina Santana