Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Musée des Arts Islamiques

Collection

Present shelfmark

Rutbi 191

Former shelfmark

Total pages

2 fols

Folio measures

25,5 x 19 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

1498

Released place

Kairouan

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

Q. 50: 19-21. 7 lines per page. Patron: Muḥammad IV (r. 1494-1596). Large Maġribī Qur'ānic calligraphy. Black ink; with red (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow (hamza); opening heading illuminated in gold; chrysography, ṯuluṯ script. Discovery place: Maqṣūra of the Great Mosque of Kairouan. "The two leaves are taken from a Qur'an copied on paper. Written on the recto of the first leaf is the deed whereby a bequest of the work was made to the Great Mosque of Kairouan by the Bafsid sultan Muhammad al-Hasan at the beginning of the month Sha'ban in the year AH 904 (1498). https://www.qantara-med.org/public/show_document.php?do_id=624

Entry author

Marina Santana