Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Collection

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

Present shelfmark

№ 53

Former shelfmark

Total pages

357 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

12r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1800

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Not applicable

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

This manuscript has not been mentioned in the literature before

Descriptive card

The Qur'an is written on Russian-made paper, which allows it to be dated to the first third of the 19th century. The text is richly decorated. There is a floral ornament made in gold, green and red ink

Entry author

Ilona Chmilevskaia