Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1444

Former shelfmark

Total pages

127 fols

Folio measures

92x87 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

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

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

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. 127 fols of firm vellum, 24 lines to the page. The script is a minute but regular maghribī; the vowels marked in red and blue, 13th century. The first three and last two pages are illuminated in gold and blue. The binding is fairly modern, flapped dark-red leather.

Entry author

Marina Santana