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 294

Former shelfmark

Total pages

59 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

5r.

Title on manuscript

The manuscript contains only the names of surahs

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

Released place

Other dates

1880

Other places

Zirikhgeran (Kubachi)

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Not applicable

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/1880–1881%20Russian%20Qur'an%20(Dag)/library

Descriptive card

This manuscript contains a subscript translation of each word into Persian (it is in red ink in a smaller handwriting under the main text). The text of the Qur'an is enclosed in a golden frame and written in black ink; The word "Allah" found in the text is highlighted in gold; the sections between the verses are also divided in gold; the names of the surahs are red. Handwriting – large naskh. Сopyist – Khan Muhammad bin Ali Bey Al-Barkhani On p. 1. there is an inscription about the transfer of this Koran to the waqf of mosque of the village of Zirikhgeran.

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia