Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-722

Former shelfmark

Total pages

473 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

1752

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

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

13 lines per page. Nash, vocalized. The first two pages (folios 1b-2a) with Sura al-Fatiha and the beginning of Sura al-Baqara are designed as a diptych, richly decorated with floral motifs predominantly in gold. The black ink used is of poor quality and unstable when exposed to moisture. The names of the suras, the verse numbers, and the place of revelation are written in white on a golden background at the beginning of each sura. The paper is of medium thickness, smooth, dark white in color, with a watermark, and of oriental origin. The pages show signs of moisture damage on the edges. The first layer of pages has separated from the binding. The text is framed with a thick golden band, reinforced on the outside with two fine lines and on the inside with one thin black line. Decorative markers at the end of each verse are written as golden circles with a black dot in the center. The marks for the beginning and sections of the Juz' are designed as elongated rosettes with floral motifs, richly decorated in gold, blue, orange, and green. Foliation was later added with graphite pencil. The binding is original leather, deteriorated by moisture and with holes, cracked along the spine. The cover has been torn off and is missing. Decorative floral motifs are printed on the exterior of the cover.

Entry author

Marina Santana