Modern as Russian Tatars are, they approached the project digitally rather than through a traditional handwritten manuscript: Pisarenko did not write all 77 430 words of the qurʾān, but only over 14 900 different wordforms (or some more because of long nūn or kāf). What he wrote, was transformed into vector graphics, which he fine-tuned and assembled into the final pages (often by cutting and pasting).
The original is a file, not a handwritten book.
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