Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1420

Former shelfmark

Total pages

13 fols

Folio measures

212x163 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Persian

Script

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 Sura 4:71-93, 118-50 and Sura 6:51-102. 13 fols of firm paper, 15 lines to the page. The script is upright and regular,f ully pointed and vocalized in red and green. Verse-endings are indicated by a pear-shaped ornament. Alif is 0,8 cm high. The binding is modern, red leather. The script is similar to that of MS. 1425.

Entry author

Marina Santana