Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an,Translation

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1606

Former shelfmark

Total pages

1 fol

Folio measures

270x292 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

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 small fragment containing from Sura 4:176 to Sura 5:1. 1 fol of firm paper, 3 lines to the page, with interlineary Persian and Turkish translations. The main script is large thulth, the subsidiary small naskh, 13th century. Unbound.

Entry author

Marina Santana