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

Title

Selections from the Qurʼān.

Authors

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

Other related names

• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Bassett, James, 1834-1906, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner

Call number

RBD Lewis O 19
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2435290
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076361971
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2435290

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1599?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Several incomplete Sūras of the Qurʼān. Selections from the following are included: al-Anfāl (8), al-Tawbah (9), al-Muʼminūn (23), al-Nūr (24), al-Furqān (25).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloguer.
   

Extent

175 leaves : 210 x 150 (135 x 93) mm bound to 210 x 152 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added, upper left recto; catchwords, added in a later hand, every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Quarter covers with red-brown leather over pasteboard (Type III) and a black spine, blind stamped with central circular medallion and frame. Blue textile doublure.

Layout

4 long lines, frame ruled.

Decoration

Two dual-page illuminations in gold, blue and red with knotwork design frame and text in cloudbands with red swirl-pattern fill (f. 1v-2r, 94v-95). Polychrome medallions in blue and gold in the margins to indicate text divisions. Gold lobed circles with green interiors and red accents mark verse endings and smaller versions appear in other places as well. Sūrah headings in gold with red and green diacritics (f. 25v, for example).

Script

Written in muḥaqqaq in black ink; pointed and vocalized; unpointed letters are often pointed underneath (ʻalāmat al-ihmāl).

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by James Bassett, "Purchased for me in Tehran A. D. 1878. J. Bassett", probably James Bassett a Presbyterian missionary working in Iran until 1885 (note inside back cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--16th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--16th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Selections from the Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 5r — Example of text division marker
• fol. 8v — Example of text division marker
• fol. 25v — Example of sūrah heading in gold
• fol. 94v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 95r — Dual page illumination