Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-558

Former shelfmark

Total pages

306 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

1797

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, vocalized. Folio 1h features Sura al-Fatiha and the beginning of Sura al-Baqara, presented as a diptych decorated in gold and blue. At the top of the diptych, on both sides, there are inscriptions shaped like domes adorned with floral motifs, including numerous intertwined branches, leaves, flowers, and buds. The text is written in black ink of poor quality, unstable when exposed to moisture. At the beginning of each sura, inscriptions are made on a gold background, but the name of the sura, the number of verses, and the place of revelation are not included. The paper is thin, smooth, dark white to yellowish in color, with a watermark, of European origin. The text is framed by a thick golden band, reinforced on the outside with two lines and on the inside with a fine black line. Large golden dots mark the end of each verse, while the start of each juz is indicated by decorative rosettes in the margins. Foliation was added later in graphite pencil. The binding is original leather. The cover is torn off and missing. On the exterior of the remaining cover, decorative floral motifs in gold are present.

Entry author

Marina Santana