Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1507

Former shelfmark

Total pages

290 fols

Folio measures

588x425 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

1444

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. 290 fols of firm paper, 11 lines to the page. The script is a majestic naskh. The first two and last two pages are fully illuminated in gold, blue and various colours. The splendid Mamluk binding is dark-brown leather, flapped, with gold-tooled ornaments. Copyist: Muḥammad Abu 'l-Fatḥ al-Anṣārī. Dated January 1444. Folio 1a contains a record of gift, dated 4 August 1444, in the name of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir [Saif al-Dīn Jaqmaq].

Entry author

Marina Santana