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

• Maʻṣum ʻAlī Khanzād, active 1764, associated name
  معصم علي خنزاد،
• ʻAẓim Allāh Khān, Amīr Bahādur Jank, former owner
  عظم الله خان،
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner

Call number

Lewis O 1
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2572442
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1243892895
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_001.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2572442

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1575-1699?

Place

India?

Summary

Complete, large-format copy of the Qurʼān with a dual-page illuminated first opening and numerous polychrome marginal medallions, some of which have been painted over earlier medallions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• A date of 1177 and 1178 A.H. (1764 CE) are on the illuminated first opening along with the name Maʻṣum ʻAlī Khanzād; this note is pasted onto the page and is likely a later addition.
   
• A note in Persian says this item was listed on 20 Rajab 1260 A.H. (6 August 1884) (f. 1r).
   

Extent

435 leaves : 533 x 368 (229) mm, bound to 535 x 370 mm

Foliation

Foliated backwards (435-1); catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in black leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gold stamped cartouches make up border and frame; the flap seems designed to fold over the outside of the front cover; plain red leather doublure.

Layout

Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink, pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by ʻAẓim Allāh Khān, Amīr Bahādur Jank (stamp, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--16th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--16th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Oriental

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• manuscripts (documents)
• Qur'ans
• Flap bindings
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

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