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

• Darwīsh Muṣṭafá al-Mawlawī, scribe
  درويش مصطفى المولوى.
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner

Call number

Lewis O 15
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2435289
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076361979
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2435289

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1750-1800?

Place

Turkey? ;

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

334 leaves : 184 x 110 (130 x 65) mm bound to 187 x 122 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; unnumbered folio after f. 16 and 289; catchword every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red-stained leather with flap (Type II), blind stamped with a central medallion on the top cover and frames all both covers and the flap. A note in pencil inside the back cover says "Rebound Shihadeh 6/75 RNx".

Layout

15 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Dual page illumination on first opening (f. 1v-2r) in gold, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and pink with text in cloudbands within a lobed circle framed with pink corners; the entire page margin is filled with a gilt flower design. Textblock rule-bordered in gold and black; the beginning of each sūrah is marked with a gold bar; gold roundels mark verse ends; readings in red. Polychrome medallions in the margins indicate section divisions.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink, pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].
• fol. 333v — Colophon

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 23v — Example of marginal text partition marker
• fol. 27v — Example of sūrah beginning marker