Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-144

Former shelfmark

Total pages

310 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

1513

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

15 lines per page. Nash, vocalised. Written in small letters with tight lines. At the beginning of Surah al-Fatiha and Surah 2, the titles are decorated with gold, blue and ochre colours. Written in black ink, resistant to humidity. The names of other surahs, the beginning marks of the juz and the places of prostration are written in black ink. The paper is medium-thick, smooth, dark-white, without watermarks, of Eastern origin. The text is framed by a thick gilt band. The foliation has been added later with graphite pencil. Leather binding, made at a later date. The cover and flap are decorated with rosettes with floral motifs.

Entry author

Marina Santana