Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna

Collection

Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna - Fondo Marsili

Present shelfmark

BUB 3066

Former shelfmark

Assemani 153

Total pages

302 fols

Folio measures

185x130 mm

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1099/1688

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

تم تمام فى شهر شعبان ١٠٩٩ الكاتب الحُروف محمد جلبي

Colophon position

f. 301v

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Ḥafṣ

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

(click me)

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Complete small format muṣḥaf, the only exemplar in Marsili collection bearing evidence of āyet ber kenār. The last two folios (301-2) have been added later to the codex. The bear last six sūras, written in different hand from the rest of the manuscript, without coloring of the titles and verse-separating signs.

Entry author

Michele Petrone