Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an,Translation

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1589

Former shelfmark

Total pages

33 fols

Folio measures

325x200 mm

Material composition

Writing support

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

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

A fragment containing from Sura 2:64 to Sura 3:72. 33 fols, 11 lines to the page. The script is a splendid naskh, gold on indigo, with interlineary Persian translation in elegan white nasta'līq, within gold margins, 17th century. The binding is modern leather.

Entry author

Marina Santana