Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Authors

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 6
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2522977
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131819670
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_006.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2522977

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1800?

Summary

Complete, octagonal copy of the Qurʼān with metal case, for use as an amulet; several leaves have been repaired and the first few may be later replacements.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• A repeating stamp on the flyleaves at the front and back of book bears pious statements and the number 118.
   

Extent

Iv, 362, ii leaves : 46 x 42 (34 x 34) mm bound to 46 x 42 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added to every tenth leaf, top left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather over thin card with embossed gold onlays in a central octagon and narrow frame; octagonal carrying case of silver-colored metal with a clasp that allows for a string to be threaded through it; grey enamal top set with a central red stone and ten red stone petals lined with gold.

Layout

13 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Dual page illuminated first and last openings in gold with green and blue or orange flower and vine motifs (f. 1v-2r, 357v-358r). Textblock is octagonally border-ruled in gold. Gold roundels lined in red mark verse endings; sūrah titles in red.

Script

Written in neat, miniscule naskh in black ink, pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Amulets

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans
• Amulets
• Onlays (decorative components)
• Pull-off boxes

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated border