Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1438

Former shelfmark

Total pages

215 fols

Folio measures

430x315 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

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

1186

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

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

The Koran. 215 fols of firm paper, 19 lines to the page. The script is alternately large and mediu naskh (1+8+1+8+1), all black apart from certain words (notably Allah) in gold. The first four and last four pages are fully illuminated in gold and blue. The binding is Turkish, flapped dark-red leather with sunk ornaments. Copyist, 'Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr ibn 'Abd al-Raḥīm al-Kātib "Zarrīn-Qalam". Dated 3 August 1186.

Entry author

Marina Santana