Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 1

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4156

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 1

Title:

al-Qurʼān.

Place:

India?

India TGN

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 435 leaves : 533 x 368 (229) mm, bound to 535 x 370 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

ʻAẓim Allāh Khān, Amīr Bahādur Jank / عظم الله خان،

Amīr Bahādur Jank ʻAẓim Allāh Khān WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Flap bindings Annotations (Provenance) codices (bound manuscripts) Qur'ans Islamic bindings (Binding) manuscripts (documents) Stamps (Provenance)

Note:

Ms. codex.
A date of 1177 and 1178 A.H. (1764 CE) are on the illuminated first opening along with the name Maʻṣum ʻAlī Khanzād; this note is pasted onto the page and is likely a later addition.
A note in Persian says this item was listed on 20 Rajab 1260 A.H. (6 August 1884) (f. 1r).
Binding: Bound in black leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gold stamped cartouches make up border and frame; the flap seems designed to fold over the outside of the front cover; plain red leather doublure.
Layout: Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink, pointed and vocalized.
Provenance: Formerly owned by ʻAẓim Allāh Khān, Amīr Bahādur Jank (stamp, f. 1r).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

Keyword:

Flap bindings

Annotations (Provenance)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

Islamic bindings (Binding)

manuscripts (documents)

Stamps (Provenance)

Manuscripts, Oriental

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_001.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_001/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia