Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-747

Former shelfmark

Total pages

392 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

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

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

11 lines per page. Nash, vocalized. The first page with Sura al-Fatiha and the last page with Sura al-Nas were written later. High-quality black ink, resistant to moisture. The names of the suras, the number of verses, and the place of revelation, along with the large dots at the end of the verses, the Tajweed signs, and the marks indicating the beginning of the Juz', are written in red ink. The paper is thicker, smooth, dark white in color, with a watermark, of European origin. The pages are partially affected by moisture. Foliation was added later in graphite pencil. The binding is original leather, deteriorated by moisture and with holes. The back cover is torn off and missing. On the exterior of the first cover, there is a decorative motif composed of nine stylized elements in the shape of a flower with six fans. There is no information about the scribe, place, or year of the copy. Judging by the paper, writing, ink, and binding, it is most likely that the copy of the original pages dates from the 17th century.

Entry author

Marina Santana