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
• Mullā Muṣṭafá, scribe
  ملا مصطفى.
• Henry Young (Firm), vendor

Call number

Lewis O 17
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2427675
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1052886854
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2427675

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic with Persian interlinear translation and marginal commentary

Origin

Date

1269 A.H. (1852)

Place

India? ;

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān with complete interlinear translation in Persian; commentary in Persian in the margins.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

417 leaves : 284 x 152 mm, bound to 290 x 175 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, top left recto; catchword on every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown gilt-stamped leather spine attached to lacquered pasteboard boards decorated inside and out (Type III); large vegetal motif on outside covers with floriated frame; inside covers have black rectangle filled with gold flower motifs framed by wide red band also filled with gold floriated design.

Layout

11 long lines, with commentary in angled bands in the margins.

Decoration

Polychrome using black, red, gold, blue, and white. Dual page illuminations of gold, blue, red, and white on first opening (f. 1v-2r), middle opening (f. 189v-190 r) and last opening (f. 416v-417r) with text in cloudbands. On all other pages, textblock is rule-bordered (blue, gold, red) and the page has a narrow, black frame to contain the commentary. The letter ʻayn in red and medallions with pendants in the margins indicate rukūʻ and text divisions; gold roundels at end of each verse. Book edges are gilded.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink, text is pointed and vocalized; Persian interlinear translation in nastaʻliq in reddish-purple ink; commentary in the margins written in black nastaʻliq; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Appears in the Henry Young and Sons' Catalogue of Books (n.d.), no. 292 (advertisement inserted before the last flyleaf).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].
• fol. 2v — Commentary begins
• fol. 417v — Colophon

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 8r — Example of text divisions
• fol. 189v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 190r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 416v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 417r — Dual page illumination