Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Collection

Present shelfmark

Arabe 420

Former shelfmark

256 (1675); 556 (Regius); Ancien fonds arabe 188

Total pages

343, II, II' fols

Folio measures

21 x 15,5 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

Complete

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

Binding: 20,5 x 16,5 x 6 cm. Textlbock: 13,5 x 11 cm. 15 lines per page. Thick, dark paper; fol. 343r: poem. Binding restored; with flap; red leather with stamped tooling; mandorla (asymetric floral decoration). Owner marks: Muḥammad b.'Alī ibn Abū 'Ayād al-Kāmilī (f. 1r); a-Ḥāgg Muḥammad (f. 1r). Library of de Mazarin; marginal note in Latin by Herbelot.

Entry author

Marina Santana