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1 online resource. This 14th-century Mameluke Qurʼan, which belonged to Père Lachaise, confessor of Louis XIV, was obtained by the Jesuit order of Paris in 1693. The manuscript was confiscated when the order was dissolved in France in 1763. Gerhoh Steigenberger (1741--87), canon regular of the Upper Bavarian monastery of Polling, subsequently bought it, along with large parts of the dissolved Jesuit library. Steigenberger had been sent to Paris to acquire books and manuscripts for the monastic library. After the dissolution of the monastery in 1803, the manuscript was transferred to the Munich Court Library, predecessor of the present-day Bavarian State Library. It is written in monumental golden Muhaqqaq script, which was predominantly used for Qurʼan manuscripts in the Mameluke period. The marginal ornaments show lotus flower motifs, which were introduced to Islamic art after the Mongol incursions of the 13th century. The Mamelukes were a military caste, originally composed of slaves from Turkey, who ruled Egypt from about 1250 until 1517. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. "BSB Shelfmark: Cod.arab. 6"--Note extracted from World Digital Library. Original resource extent: 280 sheets, paper : illustrations ; 29 x 21 centimeters. Original resource at: Bavarian State Library. Content in Arabic. Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions. 500 to 632 Arabic calligraphy Arabic manuscripts Illuminations Islamic manuscripts Koran 297 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.8936 2021667765 DLC 210525 20250607105741.7 22061633 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng