Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 18
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4170
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis O 18
- Title:
- al-Qurʼān.
- Scribe:
- Mīr Maḥmūd walad Mīr Muḥammad ʻAlī / مير محمود ولد مير محمد على.
- Place:
- South Asia?
- Language:
- Arabic with Persian translation and marginal comments
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 392 leaves : 285 x 165 (210 x 115) mm bound to 290 x 185 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Qurʼans Codices (bound manuscripts) Illuminations (painting) Manuscripts (documents) - Note:
- Ms. codex.
Binding: Rebound in light brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). The (possibly) original outside cover decorations of red leather with gold tooled sets of frames are attached to the outer boards; along with a matching piece of gold tooled red leather along the foredge flap. Doublure of reddish-brown leather.
Layout: 11 long lines with Persian in between each line; border- and line-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink, pointed and vocalized with Persian in nastaʻliq in red and black ink, pointed.
Decoration: Dual page illumination in gold, red, and blue on first opening (f. 1v-2r) with text in cloudbands. Textblock rule-bordered in gold and black, with an outer frame-rule in gold to contain marginalia. Line rules in gold between each line of the source-text and the translation. Textblock tinted beige. Sūrah titles in black ink on a gold background. Readings and marked text divisions in...
Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_018.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_018/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
