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

• Mīr Maḥmūd walad Mīr Muḥammad ʻAlī, scribe
  مير محمود ولد مير محمد على.
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner

Call number

Lewis O 18
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2438123
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080520199
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2438123

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic with Persian translation and marginal comments

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1750?

Place

South Asia?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān with interlinear Persian translation and extensive marginal comments.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

392 leaves : 285 x 165 (210 x 115) mm bound to 290 x 185 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Rebound in light brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). The (possibly) original outside cover decorations of red leather with gold tooled sets of frames are attached to the outer boards; along with a matching piece of gold tooled red leather along the foredge flap. Doublure of reddish-brown leather.

Layout

11 long lines with Persian in between each line; border- and line-ruled.

Decoration

Dual page illumination in gold, red, and blue on first opening (f. 1v-2r) with text in cloudbands. Textblock rule-bordered in gold and black, with an outer frame-rule in gold to contain marginalia. Line rules in gold between each line of the source-text and the translation. Textblock tinted beige. Sūrah titles in black ink on a gold background. Readings and marked text divisions in red; gold roundels mark verse ends. Gold circular medallions outlined and decorated with finials in blue in the margins also indicate textual divisions.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink, pointed and vocalized with Persian in nastaʻliq in red and black ink, pointed.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--17th 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].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illuminated opening
• fol. 2r — Dual page illuminated opening
• fol. 5r — Example of marginal medallion
• fol. 8r — Example of marginal medallion
• fol. 31r — Example of sūrah heading