- Copyist and illuminator
- Muhammad b. ʿAbd Allah b. ʿAli al-Murri: «وكتبه وضبطه وذهّبه», “he wrote it, vocalised it and illuminated it”
- Place
- Not stated. His nisba points to Almería, then held by the Almohads
- Today
- Dresden, Saxon State and University Library (SLUB), Mscr.Dresd.Ea.293
- Format
- Parchment; 121 folios; 10 × 9.5 cm; the first half of a Qur’an in two volumes
A very small Qur’an in two volumes, of which this is the first. Its colophon, in gilded Maghribi thuluth within a frame, says that the copyist also vocalised and illuminated it: all three crafts in one hand.
Its date and copyist are explicit, but the colophon does not say where it was copied.
The colophon in gold within a frame (end of volume 1)
كمل النصف الأول بحمد الله وعونه، وصلى الله على محمد نبيه وعبده وعلى آله وسلم تسليماً، وكتبه وضبطه وذهّبه محمد بن عبد الله بن علي المري، وذلك في العشر الوسط من شعبان المكرم [...] ثمانين وخمس مائة
The first half was completed with the praise and help of God; may God bless Muhammad, His Prophet and servant, and his family, and grant them peace. Written, vocalised and illuminated by Muhammad b. ʿAbd Allah b. ʿAli al-Murri, in the middle ten days of the honoured month of Shaʿban [...] eighty and five hundred
Our reading from the image; the word before “eighty” is not legible in it. The middle ten days of Shaʿban 580 AH correspond to about 16–25 November 1184 CE.
