Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Hādhihi muqaddimah fīmā ʻalá qāriʼih.
هذه مقدمة فيما على قارئه

Authors

• Ibn al-Jazarī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1350-1429
  ابن الجزري، محمد بن محمد،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Abū Bakr ibn Sulaymān, scribe
  أبو بكر بن سليمان.
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner

Call number

Lewis O 24
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2435294
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076363040
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2435294

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1240 (1824)

Summary

Copy of al-Jazari's poem about Qurʼān recitation. This copy includes extensive marginalia in the same hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from marginal introduction (f. 1v).
   

Extent

69 leaves : 200 x 120 (140 x 70) mm bound to 200 x 120 mm

Foliation

Contemporary pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink, upper center. Modern foliation added, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Covers have gilded paper onlay over central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis. Flap also has gilded paper onlay medallion. Gold tooled frame and corner designs. Foredge cover has gilt design. Bright pink paper with gold tracery doublure.

Layout

19 lines in two columns, color coded and border-ruled.

Decoration

Text block is border and column ruled in gold and black; page-opening is framed in gold and black rules to contain the marginalia; text and marginalia are in black, red, and green to distinguish the readings. Illuminated header on the first opening (f. 1v). Most other headers have polychrome and gold floral patterned fill.

Script

Written in naskh in black, red, green; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Early works

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Muqaddimah al-Jazarīyah fī al-tajwīd.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 8r — Example of illuminated text dividers in gold and flowers
• fol. 11r — Example of illuminated text dividers in blue and flowers