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
• Perkins, Oliver Henry, -1912, former owner
• Karam al-Dīn, Ḥāfiẓ, former owner
  كرم الدين، حافظ.
• Anderson Galleries, Inc, auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 12
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2427674
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1052873815
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2427674

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1799?

Place

India? ;

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

434 leaves : 247 x 152 (190 x 105) mm, bound to 255 x 172 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto on every fifth folio; catchword on each verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern binding in orange-pink textile over paperboard with flap (Type II); marbled paper doublure on flap.

Layout

11 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Polychrome using purple, gold, red, black, white, and blue; dual page illumination of gold, blue, and white on first opening (f. 1v-2r) and last opening (f. 432v-433r) with text in cloudbands; readings in red, titles in white. On all other pages, textblock rule-bordered in red and blue; page framed with a narrow blue rule. Roundels and medallions to indicate text divisions appear regularly in the margins; gold roundels at end of each verse. Book edges red speckled.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by Ḥāfiẓ Karam al-Dīn, son of Ḥāfiẓ Sharaf al-Dīn of Tapah Awmira (inscription in Persian on f. 433v).
   
• Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate inside front cover and inscription reading: "Presented by Sami-ul-Husain Khan to Oliver H. Perkins, Esq. Agra, India 30th December 1905" on first flyleaf verso).
   
• Sold at auction from the collection of Oliver Henry Perkins, Anderson Galleries, 23 March 1926, lot 576.
   
• 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. 339r — Folios 339v-340r adhered, no images

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 426r — Correction and explanation
• fol. 433v — Inscription