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

Call number

Lewis O 21
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2438124
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080520076
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2438124

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

after 1400?

Place

North Africa?

Summary

Incomplete copy of the Qurʼān containing verses 2:201-6:24. The parchment is curling, often brittle, and shows clear striations from preparation on a number of membranes (see f. 8 for example).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

56 leaves : 125 x 190 (80 x 150) mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, top left recto; no catchwords.

Support

Parchment

Binding

The copy is unbound, though the individual quires are still joined. Quires are commonly 10 leaves made of 4 bifolia and 2 singletons with stubs.

Layout

12 long lines.

Decoration

Red and yellow dots and green double slashes indicate diacritics. Sūrah titles in yellow outlined in brown with polychrome palmette of yellow, green and blue in the margin. Some marginal headers also in brown outlined yellow. An occasional floret of yellow appears among the verses.

Script

Written in a maghribi somewhat imitating Early Abbasid script, in brown ink.

Provenance

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--16th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [al-Qurʼān].
• fol. 14r — Āl-ʿImrān
• fol. 26v — al-Nisāʾ
• fol. 40r — al-Māʾidah
• fol. 56r — al-Anʿām

Decorations

• fol. 6r — Marginal text division marker
• fol. 10v — Marginal text division marker
• fol. 14r — Marginal medallion
• fol. 19v — Marginal text division marker
• fol. 24v — Marginal text division marker
• fol. 26v — Marginal medallion
• fol. 26v — Marginal text division marker
• fol. 28v — Marginal text division marker
• fol. 31v — Marginal text division marker
• fol. 33v — Marginal text division marker
• fol. 37v — Marginal text division marker
• fol. 40r — Marginal medallion
• fol. 52v — Marginal text division marker
• fol. 56r — Marginal medallion