Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-797

Former shelfmark

Total pages

20 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

الجزء الثامن والعشرىن

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

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

"A fragment of the 28th Juz of the Qur'an, from 61:14 to 66:12. Fol. 20: 18 x 15 (12.5 x 9.5); 11 lines. Nash, vocalised, written in fine pen, large-lettered and skilfully. Black ink, poor quality, fading to the touch and affected by damp. Thin, smooth, light brown, watermarked paper of European origin. The leaves are affected by damp and have damp stains at the edges. Leaves with modern numbering in the margins and foliation added by hand. Binding: Cardboard covered with a layer of decorative paper on the outside. There are no details of the copyist, place or year of copying. According to the paper, handwriting and ink, this copy probably belongs to the 18th century.

Entry author

Marina Santana