Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences

Collection

The collection of The Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Daghestan Scientific Centre of RAS

Present shelfmark

F. 14. No 4

Former shelfmark

Total pages

220 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

15 r

Title on manuscript

there is no title on the manuscript; the first lines of the surahs of the Koran are highlighted in a larger font

Title position

1, 8, 15 r.

Attributed Title

Quran

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Acephalous,Apodous

Released date

1540

Released place

Tpig

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

There is no colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Not applicable

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/1540–1580%20Russian%20Qur'an%20(Dag)/library

Descriptive card

Oriental paper, factory-made without watermarks, thick, glossy, white. Pagination is late, leafy. There are kustodes. The ink is black, the names of the suras, the recitation marks and the sections between the verses are written in red ink. Naskh handwriting; the first, eighth and fifteenth lines are written in a larger font.

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia