Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Chester Bearry Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

MS. 1527

Former shelfmark

Total pages

356 fols

Folio measures

200x133 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

1570

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

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. 356 fols of firm paper, 13 lines to the page. The script is a splendid naskh with gold margins. The first four and last two pages are fully illuminated in gold, blue and various colours. The binding is Turkish, daqrk-red leather with sunk gilt ornaments. Copyist: Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Qaraḥiṣārī. Dated February 1570. This copy was written for Sultan Salīm II (reigned 974-82/1566-74).

Entry author

Marina Santana