Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1434

Former shelfmark

Total pages

170 fols

Folio measures

260x178 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Persian

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 large fragment containing froma Sura 1 to Sura 6:165. 170 fols of firm paper, 10 lines to the page. The script is upright and very regular, fully pointed and vocalized in red, nlue, green, and yellow. Verse-endings are occasionally indicated by a pear-shaped ornament. Alif is 1 cm high. The first two pages are fully illuminated in gold and blue. The binding is brown leather, all over geometrical arabesques. The script is similar to that of MS. 1425. Plate (monochrome) in fol. 4b (kufic).

Entry author

Marina Santana