Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Collection

Present shelfmark

Vat.ar. 197

Former shelfmark

Total pages

60, II fols

Folio measures

39 x 27,5 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1488

Released place

Zaytuna Mosque, Tunis

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Vol. 10 of 20; Q. 16:51-18:74 (3 aḥzāb). Surface: 39 x 27,5 cm. Texblock: 34 x 21 cm. 8 lines per page. Inscription: Fol. 001r: Endowment; taḥbīs 6. Paper with Watermarks; in folio; quaternions; quinions; sextions; in folio. Folliation on verso upper right in European hand, on recto lower left in Arabic hand. Binding restored; in good condition. Large Qur'ānic calligraphy; experimental letter forms; resemblong nash script, with Maġribī elements. Black ink; with red (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and orange (hamza); verse markers, marginal vignettes, and opening heading illuminated in gold; application of gold leaves. Sura headings in Kūfī script, white ink on ornamented ground. Polychrome palette.

Entry author

Marina Santana