Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an,Translation

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1458

Former shelfmark

Total pages

149 fols

Folio measures

270x178 mm

Material composition

Writing support

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

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

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

Juz 21. 149 fols, 3 lines to the page with interlineary Persian translation. The script is a majestic naskh, alif being 3,2 cm high, 14th century. The first three pages are fully illuminated in gold, blue and red. The binding is Mamluk, flapped dark-brown leather with geometrical arabesques. Plate (monochrome) in fol. 1b (mamluk).

Entry author

Marina Santana