Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

The Mosque of Kizha village

Collection

Collection of Kizha Juma mosque

Present shelfmark

№ 1

Former shelfmark

Total pages

II, 483, II' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

folios 1v-12r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Qur'an

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1873

Released place

Kizha

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Others

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/1873%20Russian%20Qur'an%20(Dag)/library

Descriptive card

Copyist Khoja the son of Khizri al-Kizhi. The text of Qur'an is written in black ink on thin, glossy paper. Surah names and tajwid signs are written in purple ink. Fols. 1b and 2a, as well as the following fols. 2b - 3a are decorated with floral ornaments of purple, red, yellow, blue, green colors, as well as gold. On the margins of the manuscript there is an ornament in the form of rosettes and water lilies, decorated with blue, purple, green ink and gold. The text of the Qur'an is enclosed in a frame and written in a calligraphic handwriting naskh. The binding is Oriental with a flap, cardboard, covered with dark brown leather. In the center of the binding there is an embossment in the form of a medallion with a floral ornament; along the perimeter of the binding there is an embossment in the form of a rectangle, at the corners of which there are also embossments in the form of a floral ornament. All embossments are highlighted in golden color.

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia