Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

British Library

Collection

Oriental manuscripts

Present shelfmark

Or. 6640

Former shelfmark

Or. 30.13.a

Total pages

108 fols

Folio measures

137x100

Material composition

Composite

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

1v-73

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

[Adʿiyah wa-ṣalawāt (+sp/al-jamia)]. Muhammadan prayer-book. Arabic & Spanish

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

1:1

Incipit position

1v

Explicit

inna ‘adābaka bil-qāfirīna mulḥiqun

Explicit position

108r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1550-1609

Released place

Aragon

Other dates

4/7/1905

Other places

London

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Warš

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Ellis, Alexander George and Edwards, Edward, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 16; Harvey, Leonard Patrick, “Morisco Prayer-Book in the British Museum”, Al-Andalus: Revista de Las Escuelas de Estudios Árabes de Madrid y Granada, 29 (2) (1964): pp. 373-76; Hajri, Mokhles, Un manuscrito aljamiado-morisco de prácticas religiosas: Ms. Or. 6640 del British Museum, Universidad de Oviedo (Trabajo de investigación inédito), 2004

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Entry author

Pablo Roza