Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Others

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Orientali

Present shelfmark

Or. 463

Former shelfmark

Total pages

I, 293, II fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Composite

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

fols. 212r-259v

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic,Italian,Latin,Persian

Script

Arabic,Latin

Incipit

برايشان اِسْتِلَا مييافت كه نَبَايَدْ كَه حكم آلهى بقتل وَجَلاْء ايشان sopra quelli | ritrovò che non bisogna che la scientia divina nell’ammazamento et | di quelli

Incipit position

fol. 212r

Explicit

بتسليم ورضا وَاِنَّا اِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ وما بسوى حق باز كرد ندكانيم

Explicit position

fol. 259v

Preservation state

Acephalous,Apodous

Released date

1584

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/collections/559HTU6W/search/kouro/titleCreatorYear/items/T2K3IJKI/item-list

Descriptive card

The Codicological unit described is part of a Composite folder entitled "Fragmenta Arabica IV". It is an apograph of ms BnF, Suppl. Pers. 54 copied by Giovanni Battista Raimondi for the Typographia Medicea. The text shows an interlinear translation: in Latin for the Arabic of the Qurʼan, and in Italian for the Persian tafsīr. All the textual layers are in Raimondi's hand; the translation from Persian stops at fol. 258v, while the one from Arabic stops at fol. 212r. The Qurʼanic text covered by this fragment is Q 2:20-156. This was not a preparatory copy for a typographical edition, but rather a didactic copy, used by Raimondi to study the text, as it is also attested by the lexicons related to it that he compiled (mss BNCF, II.III.11, and II.III.18). The numbers of the pages of this manuscript are reproduced by Raimondi on the margins of its antigraph (ms BnF, Suppl. Pers. 54).

Entry author

Sara Fani