Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 17
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4169
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis O 17
- Title:
- al-Qurʼān.
- Scribe:
- Mullā Muṣṭafá / ملا مصطفى.
- Place:
- India? ;
- Language:
- Arabic with Persian interlinear translation and marginal commentary
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 417 leaves : 284 x 152 mm, bound to 290 x 175 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Commentaries Qurʼans Translations (documents) Codices (bound manuscripts) Illuminations (painting) Manuscripts (documents) - Note:
- Ms. codex.
Binding: Brown gilt-stamped leather spine attached to lacquered pasteboard boards decorated inside and out (Type III); large vegetal motif on outside covers with floriated frame; inside covers have black rectangle filled with gold flower motifs framed by wide red band also filled with gold floriated design.
Layout: 11 long lines, with commentary in angled bands in the margins.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink, text is pointed and vocalized; Persian interlinear translation in nastaʻliq in reddish-purple ink; commentary in the margins written in black nastaʻliq; pointed.
Decoration: Polychrome using black, red, gold, blue, and white. Dual page illuminations of gold, blue, red, and white on first opening (f. 1v-2r), middle opening (f. 189v-190 r) and last opening (f. 416v-417r) with text in cloudbands. On all other pages, textblock is rule-bordered (blue, gold, red) and the page has a narrow, black frame to contain the commentary. The letter ʻayn in red and...
Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
Provenance: Appears in the Henry Young and Sons' Catalogue of Books (n.d.), no. 292 (advertisement inserted before the last flyleaf).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate inside front cover). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_017.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_017/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
