Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Cod.arab. 56

Former shelfmark

Cod.or. 32

Total pages

125, I' fols.

Folio measures

28 x 20,5 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Qurʾān - BSB Cod.arab. 56. قرآن.

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1558

Released place

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. 1-6 Binding: 28 x 21 x 4 cm. Surface: 28 x 20,5 cm. Textblock: 24,5 x 16 cm. Paper; fol. I' blank, text begins on fol. 1v Brown leather binding, flap broken. Leather turn-ins cover doublures, doublures attached with hinges. Fragments of red and yellow endbands. Cover design: same bordure as Cod.arab 62, corner pieces and central medallion (rhombus) former wih the know-work stamp. Large Maġribī Qur'ānic calligraphy. Black ink; with magenta(vowels), green (waṣla), and ochre (hamza); verse markers and abgad in okka. Headings in Kūfī script, outlined in brown ink, filled in red. Fols, 65ff. different hand and inks. Widmannstetter coll.

Entry author

Marina Santana