Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Sarajevo Historical Archive

Collection

Present shelfmark

R-573

Former shelfmark

Total pages

55 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

النعام

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

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

Selection of suras from the Qur'an. These types of sura selections used to be used as amulets. They vary in content, but generally begin with the sura al-An'ām, from which they get their name. This selection begins with sura al-Fātiḥa and ends with sura an-Nās. Fol. 55: 16.3 x 10.5 (10.4 x 5.5); 11 lines. Nash, vocalised, written with a skilful pen. The first leaf is decorated. Black ink, poor quality, fading to the touch and affected by damp. Medium-thick, light-brown, watermarked paper of European origin. The text in places is decorated with gilt borders. The leaves are numbered in the margins and foliation has been added in pencil. Binding: Leather, original, with flap, affected by humidity and worn at the edges. On the outside of the cover, there are decorations with embossed motifs and a central gilt frame. There is no information about the copyist, place or year of copying. Based on the paper, the writing and the binding, it probably dates from the 18th or 19th century.

Entry author

Marina Santana