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

• Istirābādī, Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Ṣādiq, active 1739, scribe
  استرابادى، محمد جعفر بن محمد صادق،
• Muhammad Ali Khan, Umdat al-Mulk Anwar al-Din, Nawab of Arcot, 1717 or 1718-1795, former owner
  محمد على خان، عمدة الملك انوار الدين،
• Ogg, Samuel William, Major-General, -1828, former owner
• Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843, former owner
• Goldsmid, Isaac L. 1778-1859, former owner
• Bement, Clarence S. 1843-1923, former owner

Call number

Lewis O165
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2572443
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1243897988
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_165.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2572443

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic and Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 1151 (1739)

Place

India

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān with Persian interlinear translation that ends in the middle of al-Shuʻarāʼ verse 35 (26:35). A prayer and notes on the commissioning and copying of the work at the end (f. 496v-497r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 497r).
   

Extent

Ii, leaves : 275 x 160 (180 x 80) mm, bound to 277 x 170 mm

Foliation

Unfoliated leaves; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard with gilt-stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; gold painted foliate border; red leather doublure.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines, 11 larger lines of Arabic and 11 smaller lines of Persian; line and border-ruled.

Decoration

Dual-page illuminated first opening in four registers in blue and gold, text on cloudbands, red, pink and gold marginal fill with blue finials (f. [1]v-[2]r); gold foliate marginal fill (f. [2]r-[3]v); textblock border-ruled in gold with line rules in gold; page-opening frame-ruled in red; readings in red; sūrah titles in white on gold background cartouche sometimes with ends colored blue or pink; text divisions marked in gold in the margin.

Script

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

Provenance

• Commissioned by the Nawwāb Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān in Arcot for his son Jaʻfar (f. 497r).
   
• Formerly owned by the Duke of Sussex, Augustus Frederick (bookplate, inside back cover) and given to his library by Major-General Samuel Ogg who acquired it at a public sale of effects of the capture of the fort of Seringapatam (Bibliotheca Sussexiana, part 1, volume 1, p. 337).
   
• Sold at the Sussex sale to Isaac L. Goldsmid.
   
• Formerly owned by Clarence S. Bement (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• manuscripts (documents)
• Qur'ans
• Islamic bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Qurʼān.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: Clarence S. Bement
• fol. 1v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2v — Marginal fill
• fol. 3r — Marginal fill
• fol. 38v — Example of sūrah heading
• fol. 288v — Last page of Persian interlinear translation
• fol. 496v — Marginal fill
• fol. 496v — Prayer
• fol. 497r — Marginal fill
• fol. 497r — Colophon and notes