Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1422

Former shelfmark

Total pages

5 fols

Folio measures

18,5x26cm

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

Two small and separate fragments. Five folios of firm vellum, 6 and 15 lines to the page. The scripts are upright and regular; vowels are marked in red and green, and in red respectively. Some diacritical points have been added. Alif is 2,4 cm high. The binding is modern, green leather. The script is similar to that of MS. 1407.

Entry author

Marina Santana