Type of description:

From images

Typology

Translation

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Collection

Vaticani Arabi

Present shelfmark

Vat. Ar. 83

Former shelfmark

42

Total pages

9 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

77v-85v

Title on manuscript

Testimonia Alcorani de Christo Domino / شهادات القرأن على سيدنا يسوع المسيح وهو برسم وهو برسم محمد بن عبد الله من مدينة يثرب

Title position

77r-77v

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic,Italian,Syriac

Script

Arabic,Latin,Syriac

Incipit

سورة البقرة بلسان العربي ولقد أتينا موسى الكتاب

Incipit position

77v

Explicit

E la pace sia a me il giorno che son partorito, e che morirò, et il giorno che resterò vivo.

Explicit position

85v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1587

Released place

Rome

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Unknown

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/Oriental%20Christians,Vatican%20Collection/library

Descriptive card

A selection of Christological excerpts from the Qur'an copied in Arabic and translated into Syriac by Moses of Mardin; he also started a translation into Italian completed by Leonardo Abel. The text is included in a composite codex containing different Christian and Islamic works, some of them copied by Leonardo Abel.

Entry author

Sara Fani