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 2477

Former shelfmark

Total pages

362 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

11r.

Title on manuscript

No tittle

Title position

Attributed Title

Qur'an

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

Released place

Other dates

1770

Other places

Kischa

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Unknown

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/1770–1790%20Russian%20Qur'an%20(Dag)/search/torzhe/titleCreatorYear/item-list

Descriptive card

The text of the Qur'an is written in black ink; the names of the surahs, the signs of recitation, the sections between the verses are written in red ink. On the first pages there is an ornament in the form of a geometric pattern framing the text. The handwriting is naskh. Dagestan paper, locally produced, white, dense, matte.

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia