Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts

Collection

Рукописный отдел библиотеки Московского Главного архива Министерства иностранных дел

Present shelfmark

181-13-1226

Former shelfmark

Total pages

475 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1600

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Moscow

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/8N8N9JV3/tags/Qur'an_181-13-1226/collection

Descriptive card

This is a Quran copy that was used to bring Muslims to the oath in the Russian Empire of the 17-18 centuries. The manuscript is comprised of Qur'anic fragments, parts of which contain interlinear Persian and Turkic translations. The manuscript has also an inscription in Russian saying that the sura Bee (given as the 15th) should be used to swear Muslims in; the sura itself is written in gold (ff. 319-318).

Entry author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina