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 8
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2450054
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091899811
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2450054

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1699?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān written in a small, clear hand on paper that has been remounted; one page was recopied at a later date (f. 52).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

62 leaves : 262 x 160 (204 x 101) mm bound to 260 x 160 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, top left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in black leather over pasteboard (Type III). Embossed paper onlays: a central medallion with four pendants, two on the vertical axis and two on the horizontal, those on the horizontal axis are embossed with text. Dark blue pastedowns with design of yellow and pink flowers with lines and dots. Carrying case in black and red leather with gold tooled frame and flap. The flap is inscribed, "[illegible] khaṭṭ nafīs daqīq". Case flap is detached.

Layout

37-40 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Dual page illuminated first opening in gold, blue and pink (f. 1v-2r). Textblock is border-ruled in gold, black and red. Gold roundels lined in red mark verse endings. Sūrah titles in red and black on a gold, rectangular background. Rubrications in red.

Script

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

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 10r — Example of sūrah title