Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Collection

Private collection of Daghestani scholar Ali Kayaev (b. 1962)

Present shelfmark

№ 27

Former shelfmark

Total pages

411 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

12r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Qur'an

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1831

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Not applicable

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

This manuscript has not been mentioned in the literature before

Descriptive card

The format of the manuscript: 21 x 35. Copyist Bahilav B. Abdullah as-Suguri The Qur'an is written on Russian paper with watermarks. The ink is black and red. The text of the Qur'an is framed with floral ornaments in red, green and gold ink. There is an owner 's seal on the margins Notes in the margins are made with a grey pencil.

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia