Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1407

Former shelfmark

Total pages

4 fols

Folio measures

21,8x32,3 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

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

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Arberry (1967). The Koran Illuminated. Handlist of the Korans in the Chester Beatty Library

Descriptive card

A small fragment containing odd leaves from Sura 29:43 to 64:7. 4 folios of firm vellum, 5 lines to the page. The script is thick and very regular; vowels are marekd in red and black, and verse-endings indicated by circular ornaments. Alif is 2,6 cm high. The first and las two pages are illuminated in gold and black. The binding is modern, green eather. Comparable scripts are Della Vida VII, Munajjed 3, Vajda 6b. Plates in fols. 1a, 2b, 3b (kufic).

Entry author

Marina Santana