Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-325

Former shelfmark

Total pages

559 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

"15 lines per page. Nash, vocalised. Black ink, poor quality, unstable when exposed to humidity. The names of the suras, the number of verses and the place of their revelation are written in red ink. Some leaves of the original copy were lost and subsequently written over. The paper is medium-thick, smooth, dark-white, without watermarks, and leaves added later with watermarks. Pagination added later with graphite pencil. Leather binding, with folds, deteriorated by humidity and holes, repaired later. On the outside of the title page there are elaborate rosettes composed of small hexagonal elements with small flowers in the centre. There is no information about the copyist or the year of production. Judging from the paper, ink and handwriting, the original leaves are most likely from the 16th century, and the later added leaves are from the 17th or 18th century. "

Entry author

Marina Santana