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 616

Former shelfmark

Total pages

218 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

17r.

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

Qur'an

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

Released place

Other dates

1750

Other places

Kumukh village

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Others

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/1750–1780%20Russian%20Qur'an%20(Dag)/library

Descriptive card

The ink is black, the signs of recitation, the sections between the verses are red. The handwriting – naskh. The binding is cardboard, covered with black leather. In the center of the binding is embossed in the form of a medallion with a floral ornament. The perimeter of the binding is embossed in the form of a rectangle. In the margins of the manuscript there are many act records about the division of property.

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia