Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-372

Former shelfmark

Total pages

21 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

الجزء الخامس عشر

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

Yes

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

Fifteenth Juz of the Qur'an, from 17:1 to 18:74. Fol. 21: 17 x 12 (11.5 x 8); 9 lines. Nash, vocalized, written with a fine pen, in large letters and with skill. Black ink, poor quality, fading to the touch and affected by humidity. Titles in red with decorations and diacritical marks written in red ink. Thin, rough, light-brown, watermarked paper of European origin. The leaves are affected by humidity, worn and with deteriorated edges. Leaves with modern numbering in the margins and with foliation added by hand. No binding. There is no information about the copyist, place or year of copying. According to the paper, handwriting and ink, this copy probably belongs to the 18th or 19th century.

Entry author

Marina Santana