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
• Stowell, M. Louise, former owner
• Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj Aḥmad, scribe
  محمد بن الحاج احمد،

Call number

Lewis O 10
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2427673
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1052785039
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2427673

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1172 (1758)

Place

Kaisaria ;

Summary

Mostly complete copy of the Qurʼān; leaf with beginning of Sūrat al-Baqarah (The Cow) missing, chapter starts with verse 30 (2:30).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

294 leaves : 155 x 100 (105 x 60) mm, bound to 157 x 106 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on each verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown gilt stamped leather with flap (Type II); gilded stamped mandorlas on front and back cover with two pendants along the verticle axis each with cornerpieces and frame; gilded foredge stamp.

Layout

15 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Polychrome using black, pink, blue, green, white, and gold inks. Text of the first chapter, al-Fātiḥah (The Opening) in cloudbands (f. 1v-2r); page is right half of what would have been a dual opening with illuminated border (f. 1v). Polychrome rule-border (gold, black, red) around textblock. Readings in red; sūrah titles in white. Medallions and words in gold indicate sections and rukūʻ; gold 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 M. Louise Stowell (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• 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-Qurʼān].
• fol. 294r — Colophon

Decorations

• fol. 2v — Example of text division marker
• fol. 3r — Example of text division marker
• fol. 12v — Example of text division marker
• fol. 271v — Missing sūrah title.