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Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 542 : Excerpts from the Koran and from a prayer

Title	Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 542 : Excerpts from the Koran and from a prayer
Publication Date:	1450
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Biblioteca de la Universidad de Alcalá
Record ID	cdi_manuscriptorium_primary_ECODIC_FMBC_CODBODMER5421K8NMWB_en
Library Location	Texto completo disponible
Date	1450
Notes	The roll mounted on thin green tissue (silk?) is composed of 19 paper strips glued together. It comes from the second half of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century and was produced in an Iranian area (Timurids, Turkmen), as suggested by the floral tendril pattern on the background of 29 rectangles. The text copied on the roll consists of passages from the Koran (incomplete) and from a prayer. The text was copied in different colors (Red, Blue, Gold, Green, among others) in rectangles, squares and ribbons (Script: Nasḫ). The passages in large characters (ca. 4 cm high) in the rectangles are in turn composed of Koran passages in microscopic script (ġubār) (f. 5). This is characteristic of pieces from Iran from the sixteenth century onwards. In the first rectangle there are successive entries on a change of ownership in the year 957/1550. It is likely that the here-mentioned Sulṭān Sulaymān is Suleiman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66), but it cannot be proven (f. 2). Martin Bodmer acquired the roll in 1961 from the estate of the famous antiquarian Martin Breslauer (1871-1940).

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Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 542 : Excerpts from the Koran and from a prayer

Publication Date 1450

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Biblioteca de la Universidad de Alcalá

Record ID cdi_manuscriptorium_primary_ECODIC_FMBC_CODBODMER5421K8NMWB_en

Library Location Texto completo disponible

Date 1450

Notes The roll mounted on thin green tissue (silk?) is composed of 19 paper strips glued together. It comes from the second half of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century and was produced in an Iranian area (Timurids, Turkmen), as suggested by the floral tendril pattern on the background of 29 rectangles. The text copied on the roll consists of passages from the Koran (incomplete) and from a prayer. The text was copied in different colors (Red, Blue, Gold, Green, among others) in rectangles, squares and ribbons (Script: Nasḫ). The passages in large characters (ca. 4 cm high) in the rectangles are in turn composed of Koran passages in microscopic script (ġubār) (f. 5). This is characteristic of pieces from Iran from the sixteenth century onwards. In the first rectangle there are successive entries on a change of ownership in the year 957/1550. It is likely that the here-mentioned Sulṭān Sulaymān is Suleiman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66), but it cannot be proven (f. 2). Martin Bodmer acquired the roll in 1961 from the estate of the famous antiquarian Martin Breslauer (1871-1940).