Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-341

Former shelfmark

Total pages

337 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

المصحف الشريف

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1639

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

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

Descriptive card

15 lines per page. Nash, vocalised. Black ink, poor quality, unstable in contact with humidity. Sura names, verse number, place of revelation and end of verse written in red ink. Thicker, smooth, dark-white, watermarked paper of European origin. The sheets are partially covered with damp, later glued and repaired. Individual layers of leaves separated from the binding. The text is framed with a red line. The marks of the juz‘ and parts of the juz’ are written in the margins in red paint. Foliation has been added later with graphite pencil. Leather binding, original, with crease, relatively well preserved, without decorative ornamentation.

Entry author

Marina Santana