Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1409

Former shelfmark

Total pages

14 fols

Folio measures

12,3x9 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

Fragments containing from Sura LXV to Sura LXVII. I and from Sura LXXV. 16 to LXXVII. 29. 14 folios of firm vellum, 9 lines to the page. The script is upright and regular; vowels are marked in red, blue, green and yellow. Verse-endings are marked with thee dots triangle. Alif is 1 cm high. The binding is modern, green leather. Comparable scripts are Della Vida VI, Munajjed 3, Vajda 2. Plate in fol. 9a (kufic).

Entry author

Marina Santana