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
• Wahabī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, scribe
  وهبي، احمد بن علي.

Call number

Lewis O 9
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2427677
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1052886895
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2427677

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1189 (1775)

Place

Turkey? ;

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān, colophon also includes blessings.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

311 leaves : 150 x 97 (94 x 55) mm, bound to 152 x 105 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; unnumbered folio between f. 7-8; foliation skips numbers 290-299 inclusive. Catchword on each verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Reddish-brown gilt stamped leather with flap (Type II); gilded stamped mandorlas on front and back covers, two pendants each with cornerpieces and frame. Reddish-brown leather slipcase with purple pull and gilt-stamped frame.

Layout

15 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Polychrome using black, blue, white, red and gold inks. Text of the first opening (f. 1v-2r) is written in unfinished cloudbands and framed in a dual page illumination, mostly in gold. Textblock of every page border-ruled (gold, black, red). Readings in red; sūrah titles in white. Polychrome medallions and words in gold indicate sections and rukūʻ; gold lobed roundels at end of each verse. Gilt stamped edges.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink, text is pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Oriental

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʾān].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 16r — Example of text division word
• fol. 21r — Example of polychrome text division medallion