Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-787

Former shelfmark

Total pages

48 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

النعام

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

(click me)

Bibliographical references

Jahic (2011). Catalogue Arabic, Turkish, Persiand and Bosnian Mss Sarajevo Historical Archive Vol. 2

Descriptive card

"Selection of suras from the Qur'an. These types of sura selections generally served as talismans. They vary in content, but generally begin with the sura Al-An'am, hence the name. This selection begins with the sura Al-Fatihah and ends with a supplication in Arabic. Fol. 48: 16 x 11 (11.5 x 6.5) 12 lines. Vocalised naskh script, written by an uncertain hand. Black ink, of inferior quality, vulnerable to contact with humidity. Thin, smooth, dark-white paper, with a watermark of European origin. In the margins of some leaves there are annotations made in graphite pencil or ink. The leaves contain marks and numbering added at a later date. Watermarked, of European origin. The leaves are separated by damp, untidy and detached from the binding. The leaves contain marks and numbering added later with graphite pencil. The binding is leather, original, damaged by damp and insects, separated from the manuscript leaves. There is no information about the copyist, place or date of copying. Based on the paper, the writing, the ink and the binding, it is probably 19th-century."

Entry author

Marina Santana