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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4247

Shelfmark:

Lewis O165

Title:

al-Qurʼān. / القرآن

Qurʼan

Scribe:

Istirābādī, Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Ṣādiq, active 1739 / استرابادى، محمد جعفر بن محمد صادق،

Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Ṣādiq Istirābādī WIKIDATA

Place:

India

India TGN

Language:

Arabic and Persian

Arabic WIKIDATA

Persian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, leaves : 275 x 160 (180 x 80) mm, bound to 277 x 170 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Muhammad Ali Khan, Umdat al-Mulk Anwar al-Din, Nawab of Arcot, 1717 or 1718-1795 / محمد على خان، عمدة الملك انوار الدين،

Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah WIKIDATA

Ogg, Samuel William, Major-General, -1828

Samuel William Ogg, Major-General WIKIDATA

Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843

Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex WIKIDATA

Goldsmid, Isaac L. 1778-1859

Sir Isaac Goldsmid, 1st Baronet WIKIDATA

Bement, Clarence S. 1843-1923

Clarence S. Bement WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (f. 497r).
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.
Script: Written in naskh and nastaʻlīq in black ink, pointed and vocalized.
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...
Provenance: Commissioned by the Nawwāb Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān in Arcot for his son Jaʻfar (f. 497r).
Provenance: 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).
Provenance: Sold at the Sussex sale to Isaac L. Goldsmid.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Clarence S. Bement (bookplate inside front cover).

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Qur'ans

codices (bound manuscripts)

Islamic bindings (Binding)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Eighteenth century

Manuscripts, Oriental

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_165.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_165/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia