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 Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre RAS

Present shelfmark

F. 14. No 289

Former shelfmark

Total pages

242 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

12r

Title on manuscript

each surah has a title, but there is no one title on the manuscript

Title position

the titles of the surahs follow immediately after the end of the previous surah, therefore they do not have a fixed position

Attributed Title

Quran

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1781

Released place

Kalkni

Other dates

Other places

Tipig

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

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/1781%20Russian%20Qur'an%20(Dag)/library

Descriptive card

The copyist Muhammad Husilav, son of Muhammad, son of Muhammad, son of Muhammad, son of Musa al-Butri. Factory paper, European production, thick, yellowed, with watermarks. Handwriting is naskh. Black ink; sections between ayahs, signs concerning recitation and frame text red; the titles of the suras are in red, yellow, green, blue, and burgundy ink. The binding of the manuscript is cardboard, pasted over with dark brown leather. There is valve. In the center of the binding there is a diamond-shaped embossing in the form of a floral ornament. On p. 1a, there are two act records. The first is an inscription on the division of property between the heirs, possibly of one of the owners of the manuscript. The second is donative. The inscription: “Bequeathed this Sacred Scroll of Ramadan, son Mullah Abdullah from the village of Tpig Juma mosque of the village of Tpig. [He did this] fearing the torment of hell, on the condition that [this Koran] would not be sold, donated and not taken out [from the mosque] ”. In the margins there are small comments on individual words of the text.

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia