Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-142

Former shelfmark

Total pages

312 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

1804

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

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

5 lines per page. Nash script, vocalized, written with great mastery. The text is written in low-quality black ink, which does not smudge or fade with moisture. The names of the surahs are written in golden ink, while the numbers of the ayahs and the places of revelation are in red ink. The opening with Al-Fatiha (الفاتحة) and Al-Baqara (البقرة) is decorated with a star-shaped design and framed with a double gold border. The text is surrounded by a golden ribbon decorated with flowers, and the spine of the binding is covered with golden paper. The binding is modern leather, with the interior of the cover beautifully decorated with golden ornaments and green-silver fabric. The exterior cover is adorned with golden rosettes. There is no information about the scribe, nor the date or place of transcription. Based on the paper, ink, style of writing, and binding, the manuscript is likely from the 18th century.

Entry author

Marina Santana