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. No2 579

Former shelfmark

Total pages

55 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

9r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

Released place

Other dates

1350

Other places

Itsari

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/1350–1370%20Russian%20Qur'an%20(Dag)/library

Descriptive card

The Qur'an contains an subscript translation into Persian. The main text of the Quran is written in black ink; the surah titles and sections between the verses are golden; the subscript translation in Persian is red. The handwriting is naskh. On p. 58 there is an inscription about the restoration, dating 1917-1918.

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia