Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-531

Former shelfmark

Total pages

302 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

1702

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

(click me)

Bibliographical references

Jahic (2011). Catalogue Arabic, Turkish, Persiand and Bosnian Mss Sarajevo Historical Archive Vol. 2

Descriptive card

15 lines per page. Nash, vocalized. Folios 1b and 2a, featuring Sura al-Fatiha and the beginning of Sura al-Baqara, are designed as a diptych with a golden background and floral motifs. At the beginning of the other suras, the verse numbers and places of revelation are written in white letters. The black ink used is of poor quality, unstable when exposed to moisture. The paper is fine, smooth, without watermark, and of oriental origin. The pages are affected by moisture, scattered, and partially detached from the binding. The start of the Juz' is marked in the margins with large letters written in gold. Foliation was later added in graphite pencil. The binding is original, half-leather, deteriorated by moisture and with holes, detached from the manuscript pages. Decorative rosettes with floral motifs are embossed on the exterior of the cover.

Entry author

Marina Santana