Type of description:

From images

Typology

Translation

Current_location

Institution

Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial

Collection

Arabe

Present shelfmark

Arabe 1624

Former shelfmark

ii.&.15.; Casiri MDCXIX

Total pages

528 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

folios 1r-528v

Title on manuscript

Alcoran impugnado por el Padre fr. Domingo German

Title position

first flyleaf

Attributed Title

Interpretatio Alcorani Litteralis

Language

Arabic,Latin

Script

Arabic,Latin

Incipit

Praefatio. Non male me otium

Incipit position

1r

Explicit

sive daemonum sive hominum.

Explicit position

528v

Preservation state

Acephalous

Released date

1669

Released place

El Escorial

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Laus Deo. Explicit Interpretatio literalis Alcorani. In vigilia S. Mathiae Apostoli Anno Milesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimono

Colophon position

folio 528v

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

(click me)

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/Escorial%2C%20Ms.%201624/library

Descriptive card

The manuscript contains the entire work, hovewer lacking the title page. could be considered a working exemplar, due to the presence of corrections. It contains insertions and marginal notes in Arabic script.

Entry author

Ulisse Cecini