Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1503

Former shelfmark

Total pages

300 fols

Folio measures

353x183 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

1411

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

The Koran. 300 fols of firm paper, 11 lines to the page. The script is an excellent naskh. The binding is dark-brown leather, flapped, with a sunk ornament. Copyist: [Zain al-Dīn] 'Abd al-Raḥmān [ibn Yūsuf] ibn al-Ṣā'igh al-Kātib.

Entry author

Marina Santana