Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Collection

Arabe

Present shelfmark

Arabe 5846

Former shelfmark

Total pages

42 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

بِسْٚمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيْمِ (46:1)

Incipit position

fol 1v

Explicit

(51:30) قَاْلُوا كَذَلِكِ قَاْلَ رَبُّكِ إِنَّهُ هُوَ ٱلْحَكِيِمُ ٱلْعَلِيْمُ

Explicit position

fol 42r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1382

Released place

Egypt

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Ḥafṣ

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Marginalia: just groups of verses divisions: indication of groups of five and ten verses. The former in golden "Kufic" on red circular background, delimited by concentric golden and silver circles, delimited by ornamental line blu line in shape of drop; the latter in golden "kufic" on red circular background, delimited by golden, silver, different yellow nuances and blue concentric circles, delimited by blue ornamental line in circular shape.

Entry author

Olivier Salem