Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1624

Former shelfmark

Total pages

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Script

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1366

Released place

Cairo

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 in the form of a scroll. The scroll measures 11,4 cm wide, the thin paper being mounted on blue cloth. The script is a small naskh within gold margins, continued in the border, and is illuminated throughout in gold and blue, each Sura being introduced by an ornament. The script in places forms patterns of words, being blessings on the Prophet and Koranic texts. Magic squares etc. follow the text. Copyist: Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn 'Alī al-Ḥanafī al-Ḥusainī al-Kakhtāwī.

Entry author

Marina Santana