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The Qur’an of Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Sharif al-Hasani

Le Coran de Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Sharif al-Hasani (Escurial) · مصحف محمد بن أحمد الشريف الحسني

Shaʿban 1028 AH · July–August 1619 CE

In the reign of Zaydan and his brothers

SurvivesCompleteNot digitised
Copyist
Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Sharif al-Hasani
Place
Not stated; the script and decoration are Maghribi
Today
El Escorial, Royal Library, árabe 1256
Format
Paper; a complete Qur’an; the reading of Warsh from Nafiʿ

Copied seven years after the seizure of Zaydan’s library, so it did not enter the Escorial with it; it most likely came from the library of the Count-Duke of Olivares in 1656 CE. The vowels, sukūn and shadda are in red, the waṣla in green and the hamza in orange. Its margins mark the eleven prostrations counted by the Malikis.

Its date and copyist are explicit, but the colophon does not give the place of copying.