Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-385

Former shelfmark

Total pages

20 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

الجزء السادس عشر

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

Sixteenth juz of the Qur'an, from verse 18:75 to 20:135. Fol. 20: 18 x 12 (12 x 8); 9 lines. Nash, vocalised, written with a skilful pen. Black ink, poor quality, fading to the touch and affected by damp. Titles in red ink with decorations and diacritical marks written in red. Thin, smooth, light brown paper, watermarked, of European origin. Some leaves have been restored and glued at the edges. Binding: leather, original, slightly worn at the edges. On the outside of the cover there are embossed decorations in the form of rosettes and a coat of arms in the centre. At the end (vol. 20b) there is an undated note indicating that it was copied by Muhammad, son of Mustafa al-Hilmi.

Entry author

Marina Santana