According to the experts, a copy of the Holy Qur’an they found is at least 200 years old. The First National TV-Channel reports that it was purchased for the Ostrog Museum by its staff and remained there for 20 years until the scientists turned onto it.
It appeared that this copy of the Holy Qur’an is very precious. The experts say it took about a year to write it. The Manuscript is written on cloth sheets with brown ink, some of the pages are read to tatters. Mykola Bendiuk, a fine art expert, said that the production of sheets the Qur’an was written on had been launched in late XVIII - early XIX century.
Mykhailo Yakubovych, the oriental researcher who was the first person to translate the meanings of the Qur’an to Ukrainian, stressed that this copy is unique, as handwritten copies weren’t done and found on the West of the country earlier.
The specialists concede that the copy was written by Mustafa Adam Ali (Mykhailo Yakubovych found this name on the manuscript), descended from Tatars captivated by Kostyantyn Ostrozhskiy in one of the XVI century battles.
Today the price of Manuscript Holy Qur’an is estimated at dozens thousand hryvnias. This is a full copy which consisting of 19 sewed gatherings and containing all 114 surahs (chapters).
