F. 14. No 291 Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences

DBId: 143

Entry author: Ilona Chmilevskaia

Node type: Manuscript

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 291

Former shelfmark

Total pages

161 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

8r

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

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

Released place

Tpig

Other dates

1500

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

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/1500–1560%20Russian%20Qur'an%20(Dag)/search/shi/titleCreatorYear/item-list

Descriptive card

The manuscript contains a subscript commentary in Arabic. The copyist Mullah Bahal bin Abdul from Tpig village. The beginning and end of the manuscript are missing. The text of the Qur'an is written in black ink, the names of the surahs are red. Handwriting is naskh. Ownership records: On p. 160 there is the following entry: "This Koran was bequeathed by Tanuhai, the daughter of Ashura from v. Tpig of the main mosque in Tpig, fearing Allah and hoping to enter Paradise." There are many other assembly notes at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript. The binding is cardboard, covered with brown leather. There is an embossment in the form of a floral ornament on the central field of the binding. The paper of the manuscript is locally produced, dense, thin in places, darkened.

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia