Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 16
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4168
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis O 16
- Title:
- al-Qurʼān.
- Language:
- Arabic and Persian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 221 leaves : 380 x 230 (285 x 162) mm bound to 388 x 250 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Gobindpurshad, Pandit, Priest
Burton, John E. 1847-
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Qurʼans Islamic bindings (Binding) Full covers Codices (bound manuscripts) Envelope flaps (features) Illuminations (painting) Manuscripts (documents) - Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from sūrah heading (f. 1v).
Newspaper clipping with headline, "A Book Worth $125,000," about a different copy of the Qurʼān, a gift from the Amir ʻAbd al-Raḥmān of Afghanistan, pasted onto the upper corner of flyleaf 1 recto at the front of the copy.
A page from another Qurʼān (210 x 103 mm) pasted sideways onto back cover pastedown with a note in pencil recording the name of the previous owner, Pandit Gobindpurshad in English, Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic script. The note also says, "His Signature in the three languages" and is signed J. E. B.
A note beginning, "hādhā al-kitāb" and signed Fahda Jabaly upside down on the first flyleaf recto.
Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Boards are gold tooled with rectilinear design and have blind stamped central mandorla, pendant and cornerpiece paper onlays. Flap has matching embossed onlays and gold tooling. Spine and fore-edge flap have been reinforced with red leather. Front board is detached.
Layout: 14 long lines of Arabic with 14 lines of Persian in red, border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink, pointed and vocalized; Persian written in nastaʻlīq in red for translation and black for marginalia; pointed.
Decoration: Dual page illuminated first opening in gold and blue (f. 1v-2r). Textblock is border-ruled in gold. Gold roundels with a red center mark verse endings. Sūrah titles in red set off by gold rules. Rubrications in red, including text divisions markers in the margins.
Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Pandit Gobindpurshad, a priest in Delhi, India with the remark, "Mohamadan Kurran or Bible with its translation in Persian" (inscription upside down on first flyleaf recto).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John E. Burton (clipping from sale of his collection pasted onto front pastedown; his initials on Qurʼān leaf pasted onto back cover pastedown).
Provenance: Sold in the John E. Burton sale at Anderson Galleries, November 17, 1915, lot 1487 (Catalog entry for the sale pasted onto the front pastedown with added note in pencil dated 11/17/1915).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_016.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_016/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
