Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-296

Former shelfmark

Total pages

309 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

1851

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

15 lines per page. Nash script, vocalized, written with a very skilled hand. Folio 1b, where Surah Al-Fatiha is found, and folio 2a, where Surah Al-Baqara begins, are decorated in a luxuriously ornamented diptych with gold and blue. The black ink is of low quality but resistant to moisture. The titles of the surahs, the number of ayahs, and the place of revelation are written in red and placed at the beginning of each surah. The paper is thick, yellowish, and of Eastern origin. The pages have decorated margins in gold and graphite. The binding is original leather with a flap, adorned with borders. The exterior of the cover is decorated with a central rosette and embossed floral motifs. The interior cover is also ornamented, and the flap has golden details. On folio 309a, there is a note indicating that the Mushaf was copied by Muhammad ar-Rusdi Kutahi in 1268/1851-52.

Entry author

Marina Santana