Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-141

Former shelfmark

Total pages

272 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

المصحف الشريف

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

Yes

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

Nash, vocalised, written in large letters. Two leaves are missing at the beginning with Surah al-Fatiha and the first 17 verses of Surah 2, and at the end of the leaves from Surah 98 to 114. Black ink resistant to unit. The names of the suas, the number of verses, the place of revelation, the names of God, signs of prostration, beginning, middle, and quarter of juz and decorative dots at the end of the verses are written in gold-coloured ink. Thick, dark-white paper of Eastern origin. Leaves affected by damp. Most of the plates have subsequently been pasted and repaired. Original leather binding, very deteriorated by humidity, with holes. First title page torn and lost. On the outside of the back cover, an embossed decoration with floral motifs. No information on transcriber, place or year of creation. Judging by the paper, the writing, the ink and the binding, the copy is very old, probably dating from the 14th or 15th century.

Entry author

Marina Santana