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The completion of the restoration the oldest Koran in Aleppo
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1/11/2009 |
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Juma Al Majid : “I’m responsible to save any book in the world “
“The completion of the restoration the oldest Koran in Aleppo"
On a press conference held in Dubai after the completion of the restoration the oldest and largest Koran in Aleppo, His Highness Mr. Juma Al Majid declared that he is responsible for saving any book in the world regardless of religion or language.
He showed that the agreements and memoranda of understanding signed by the center paved the way to save many libraries by using the restoration machines which were developed at a laboratory in the center, and installed in the libraries of manuscripts around the world.
The center is still continuing its efforts and interest in the Islamic heritage manuscripts that are widespread in various libraries in the world, and today the center is restoring the oldest and largest Koran in the Endowment Library in Aleppo, which is returned back to the Mamluk era, which over the age of six hundred and fifty years.
Dr. Bassam Al Dagstani, the head of the Restoration Department and the supervisor of restoring this copy of the holy Koran showed that a team of ten specialists worked for two months to restore this Koran.
Mr.. Mohamed Hassan Noufalia , the head of the libraries Department who supervised on the photocopying process said that the photocopying team engaged for three days to copy this Koran by using digital machine despite its large size.
The center presents this work as a gift to the Endowment Library in Aleppo, to call upon God to make this effort in the balance of the merits of His Excellency Juma Al Majid .
It is to be mentioned that the center has more than 40 restoration factories in the Arab and Islamic world, in which the center established them in terms of equipment, materials, tools and training, and the main important factories are the following:
-The Restoration Factory in Timbuktu - Mali
-The Restoration Factory in the Manuscripts Institute in Sana'a – Yemen
-The Restoration Factory in the Oriental Manuscript Institute in Dushanbe – Tajikistan.
-The Restoration Factory in the Konya Central Library in Turkey.
- The Restoration Factory in the Hashemite Royal Documentation Center in Jordan.
The Center is also a member of the technical committee supervising the restoration of the copy of the Holy Koran of Caliph Othman bin Afan (may Allah be pleased with him) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which was formed by UNESCO ..
Description :
The size is very big (72/52 cm), 434 pages, and it is returned back to the Mamluk era in the period between the eighth and ninth century of Hegira, normal thickness paper with a carbon ink and modern leather cover.
Damages
The copy was affected by many damages such as the accumulation of dust, dirt, moisture and the absorption of color on paper, which led to the dissolution of the ink in some of the pages and the weakness and the loss of many parts of the pages due to the bad conditions of preservation and storing, in addition to the bad old restoration, also the new leather cover is bad and should be replaced with a cover to resemble the date of copying.
Technical and practical procedures
1 - Description of the Koran and the identification of the damages.
2 - Cleaning the papers and removing the old restoration.
3 - Treating the papers with chemicals.
4 – Manufacturing the papers that are appropriate (thickness and color) for the manual restoration.
5 - Restoring the most papers of the Koran manually with a high professional way, and restoring the other automatically.
6 - Binding and conservation
The Koran was sewed with the same way used previously, then a geometrical cover was designed to resemble the covers used in the Mamluk era , and a box-keeping was manufactured to protect the Koran from the bad conditions. |
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