- Owner
- Written for our lord Abu Muhammad ʿAbd Allah, son of the Commander of the Muslims Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Sharif, that is, Sultan ʿAbd Allah al-Ghalib (r. 964–981 AH / 1557–1574 CE)
- Copyist
- We did not find his name in the catalogue description
- Place
- Not given in the catalogue description; the Qur’an was written for the sultan’s own library
- Today
- London, British Library, Or. 1405
- Format
- 400 folios; about 26 × 20 cm; 17 lines; a large, clear Maghribi script; leaves alternating in colour between beige, yellow and pink
A luxury Qur’an, vocalised with red for the vowels, yellow for the hamza and green for the waṣla, shadda and sukūn. Its margins mark every division of the Qur’an, from halves, thirds and quarters down to tenths, the sixty ḥizbs, and twenty-seven sections for the nights of Ramadan. The sura headings are in gilded Kufic.
Its colophon, in an ornamental white script on a blue ground, runs over four pages (397v–399r), followed by two pages of geometric decoration in gold and colours. The first twelve leaves are modern replacements for those lost at the beginning.
We found no published digitised copy. It is described in Rieu’s catalogue of the supplement of Arabic manuscripts in the British Museum (1894), and Bongianino and Cellard drew attention to its pink leaves.
