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
• Riddell, Maria, 1772-1808, former owner
• Schwohe, Johann Christian, former owner

Call number

Lewis O 7
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2435286
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076361942
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2435286

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1600? and 1683

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

257 leaves : 310 x 208 (220 x 132) mm bound to 318 x 222 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, top left recto; catchword every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Rebound in green moroccan with gilt stamped meander pattern frame and "AL-KORANUM MAHOMEDAN" stamped on the spine; gilt edged.

Layout

15 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Polychrome using black, blue, red and gold inks. Dual page illumination on first opening (f. 1v-2r) in gold, blue, red with gold text in cloudbands with pin-striped red fill. Textblock rule-bordered in blue, gold, and red; sūrah titles in gold; readings in red; gold roundels with red centers and edged in blue dots mark verse ends. Polychrome medallions in the margins indicate sections and mark rukūʻ.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink, pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by Johann Christian Schwohe (inscription, front flyleaf 2v). The full inscription reads: "Dieser Alcoran ist Ao. 1683. bey dem Entsatz der Stadt Wien von dem H. Haubtmann Baron v. Posadowsky erbeutet, und hernach bey dessen Zurückkunft meinem seligen Vater, weyl. H. Christian Schwohe, Diaconu bey der (Bergischen) Pfarrkirche, und Professori des dasigen Gymnasio verehret worden, welches ich attestire Johann Christian Schwohe Diaconus prius in Stade und Pastor in Friedensdorf.".
   
• Formerly owned by Mrs. Riddell, probably Maria Riddell (1772 - 1808) (inscription, back flyleaf 3r, with a note on back flyleaf 2v mentioning that she was a friend of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Qurʼans

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 4r — Example of marginal medallion