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

Call number

Lewis O 11
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2435288
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076361819
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2435288

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic with Persian commentary and end pages

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1899?

Place

Iran? ;

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān, with additional prayers at the end and Persian marginal commentary.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

700 leaves : 412 x 240 (267 x 134) mm bound to 410 x 255 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchword every verso, lower left. Foliation skips from f. 449 to f. 500.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in light brown leather with flap (Type II); front and back covers blind stamped with a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, and cornerpieces in a gilt stamped frame; flap also blind stamped with half mandorla.

Layout

11 long lines, border-ruled with margin for commentary.

Decoration

Polychrome using black, blue, green, white, and gold inks. Dual page illumination on first opening (f. 1v-2r) in gold, blue, red, and green with text in cloudbands. Textblock rule-bordered in gold and black; page openings ruled in gold and black; sūrah titles and readings in red; gold roundels mark verse ends. Polychrome medallions in the margins indicate sections and red letter ʻayn in the margins mark rukūʻ.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink, pointed and vocalized. Commentary in nastaʻliq in black ink, pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].
• fol. 746r — Prayers
• fol. 750v — Persian, with prayer in Arabic.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination