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

• Āz̲nahvī, ʻAlī Riḍāʼī ibn Ismaʻīl, active 1839, scribe
  آذنه‌وى، علي رضائى بن اسمعيل،
• Morris, Lydia Thompson, 1849-1932, former owner

Call number

Lewis O 158
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2522991
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131820060
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_158.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2522991

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1255 A.H. (1839)

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Iv, 307, iv leaves : 170 x 113 (117 x 65) mm bound to 170 x 120 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gilt-stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; matching flap with fore-edge quotation beginning "la yalmashu illā al-muṭahharīn"; marbled paper doublure.

Layout

15 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Dual page illuminated first opening in gold with floral borders (f. 1v-2r); gold floral finispiece (f. 303v); sūrah titles signified by gold bars lined in pink, orange, or blue; textblock border-ruled in red and gold; gold roundels with blue and orange dots mark verse endings; readings in red; floral marginal medallions mark text divisions.

Script

Written in neat naskh in black ink, pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned Lydia T. Morris (stamp in gutter, f. 3r).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].
• fol. 303v — Colophon
• fol. 304r — Prayer

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 3r — Stamp: "Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, February 1926"
• fol. 12r — Example of marginal medallion
• fol. 26r — Example of sūrah heading
• fol. 303v — Illuminated finispiece