Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-581/1

Former shelfmark

Total pages

12 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

النعام

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

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 selection of suras from the Qur'an. These selections of suras would generally be like amulets. They have different contents, but most of the time they start with Surah al-An'am, hence the name. This choice begins with Surah Ya-Sin and ends with Surah al-Ihlas. Fol. 24-36b; 16 x 10 (11.5 x 7.5): 7 lines per page. Nash, vocalised, written in an unskilled hand. Ink of poor quality, unstable in contact with humidity. Thick, rough, dark white, watermarked paper of European origin. Sheets affected by humidity, worn, scattered and partially separated from the binding. Leaves with custodians and later added foliation, graphite pencil. Leather binding, original, with crease, badly damaged by humidity and wormholes, separated from the manuscript leaves."

Entry author

Marina Santana