Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Collection

Present shelfmark

Vat.ar. 210

Former shelfmark

Total pages

93, II fols

Folio measures

19,5 x 17,5 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

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Content: Qur'an: Guz' 26; Q. 46-51:30. Textblock: 14 x 10,5 cm. 5 lines per page. Fol. 001r: Owner's Mark. Parchment, rule of Gregory; side lines ruled, lines ruled in brown colour. Brown ink; with red (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow (hamza). Illuminations in blue and gold. In the Ranaldi inventory (second hald 16th century): n. 37 (?); owner (fol. 1r) Nāṣir Ḥasan al-Tahlīl.

Entry author

Marina Santana