Kazan Copy of the St. Petersburg Edition of the Qur’an

The typographic edition of the Arab text of the Qur’an in Russia began during the reign of Catherine II. Until recently, only two copies of these prints stored in the Russian National Library were known in Russian collections. In 2019, another copy was discovered in the collection of the Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve. This version of the print diff ers from the copies of the Russian National Library with the design of the fi rst pages of the text, using paper with countermarks containing two dates of the paper casting (1793 and 1794). In addition, this copy is a rare example of a book with a year dated 1799 by a record of the conditions of off ering Qur’an as a waqf (gift/inalienable property) to the mosque of Sharif village. Date of paper casting and date of waqf determine the period during which the publication was implemented. The article is devoted to the description of this copy. 

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