Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1486

Former shelfmark

Total pages

217 fols

Folio measures

475X336 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

1491

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. 217 fols of firm paper, 15 lines to the pages. The script is an excellent naskh, all within gold margins. Fols 5b-6a are fully illuminated in gold, blue and various colours. The binding is Mamluk, flapped dark-brown leather with gilt sunk ornaments and toolings. Copyist: Aḥmad ibn Bakht Khujā al-Shāfi'i al-Ṭarābulusī. Dated 28 July 1491.

Entry author

Marina Santana