Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Translation

Current_location

Institution

Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts

Collection

Старопечатные книги Московской Синодальной типографии

Present shelfmark

1251-1-3

Former shelfmark

1251-1-36

Total pages

350 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Russian

Script

Cyrillic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1716

Released place

Saint Petersburg

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

(click me)

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/8N8N9JV3/tags/1716%20Russian%20Qur'an/items/VW2DXJUW/collection

Descriptive card

A proof copy of the 1716 Qur’an. The text is edited by Mikhail Volkov and Ivan Kremenetskii. The changes are stylistic, no cross-check with the original French version. Handwriting is elegant in the beginning, and less organized towards the end

Entry author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina