Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Collection

Private collection of Daghestani scholar Ali Kayaev (b. 1962)

Present shelfmark

№ 54

Former shelfmark

Total pages

442 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

13r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Qur'an

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1795

Released place

The rural community Risor (Charodinsky district of the Republic of Dagestan)

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Not applicable

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

This manuscript has not been mentioned in the literature before

Descriptive card

The format of the Quran: 34 x 21 cm Copyist: Qushi the son of Muhammad Ali al-Rasi. On the foll 1 there is an entry that a certain Jamal al-Din took the post of imam of the mosque. The Quran is written on Russian paper with watermarks. The first surah is decorated with geometric ornaments in red, green and gold ink. Next, the text is framed with a red border. The ink is black and red.

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia