Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-22

Former shelfmark

Total pages

316 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

1684

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

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

Nash, vocalized. Black ink of poor quality, unstable when exposed to moisture. The sura titles are written in white ink on a golden background, with the beginnings of the Juz' marked in gold letters in the margins. At the beginning of Sura al-Fatiha and Sura al-Baqara, there are inscriptions designed as a diptych, decorated with golden motifs. The text on the other pages is framed by a golden band, reinforced on the outside with two fine lines and on the inside with a single fine black line. The paper is thin, smooth, dark white with a yellowish tint, watermark-free, and of oriental origin. The leaves are scattered and partially detached from the binding. The binding is original leather, with a fold, cracked along the spine. In the middle of the exterior side of the cover and flaps, there are longitudinal rosettes adorned with stylized floral decoration, executed with fine and precise embossing pressed into thicker gilded leather. The frame of this central area is composed of rectangular floral reliefs placed in the corners of the cover. The cover has been torn off and inserted between the front cover and the pages.

Entry author

Marina Santana