Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Centrale della Regione Siciliana A. Bombaci

Collection

Manuscripts

Present shelfmark

III C 11

Former shelfmark

Total pages

110 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

fols 1v-110r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

al-Fatiha

Explicit position

fol 1v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1000

Released place

Spain

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Warš

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Lagumina, “Catalogo dei codici orientali della Biblioteca Nazionale di Palermo,” p. 377

Descriptive card

[Suras 1-4, Parchment in elongated format (140 x 100 cm). The manuscript already appears in the library's index of the year 1671. It comes from the Collegio Massimo dei Gesuiti, Palermo]

Entry author

Teresa Madrid