Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-342

Former shelfmark

Total pages

130 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

7 lines per page. Part of the Mushaf beginning with Surah 55 and ending with Surah 114. Kufi, handwritten. Black ink, high quality, moisture-resistant. Names of Suras and places of revelation written in red ink. Medium-thickness, smooth, dark-white, watermarked paper of European origin. Leaves affected by humidity and with holes, slightly separated from the binding. The foliation has been added later with graphite pencil. Leather binding, damaged by a hole, cracked along the spine. On the outside of the front cover there are elaborate rosettes with floral motifs. There is no information about the copyist and the year of production. Judging from the paper, ink, lettering and binding, the copy is most likely from the 16th century.

Entry author

Marina Santana