Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1401

Former shelfmark

Total pages

20 fols

Folio measures

30,3x42 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

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

Descriptive card

A considerable fragment containig from Sura 13:34 to 18:110. Twenty folios of firm vellum. 13 lines to the page. The script is thick and very regular; vowels are marked in red afther the usual Kufic manner. Verse-endings are indicated by three dashes. Alif is 1 cm. To be noted are the cusped finials. The binding is fairly modern, blind-tooled red leather. Comparable scripts are Della Vida III, Munajjed 3, Vajda I.

Entry author

Marina Santana