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

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

Present shelfmark

F. 14. No 6

Former shelfmark

Total pages

375 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

13 r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Quran

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1730

Released place

Kyuchkhyur

Other dates

1733

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Others

Illustrations

Yes

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

The text of the Quran is written in black ink. The names of the surahs, the sections between the verses are written in gold. The names of the surahs are also enclosed in a rectangular frame, painted over blue and green ink, sometimes there is a floral ornament. On the spread on sheet 1 (surah "al-Fatiha") and sheet 2 (surah "al-Bakara") multicolored unwan, decorated with red, green and blue patterns in the form of floral ornament. The handwriting is naskh. Each sheet of the manuscript bears the following inscription: "[From property] a descendant of the noble messenger [Allah] Sayyid Ahmad al-Yamani al-Ghumuki 1146 (1760/61)"

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia