al-Qurʼān.
- Holding institution:
- Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- al-Qurʼān.
القرآن - Creator:
- Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts
- Date:
- between 1600 and 1799?
- Description:
- Complete copy of the Qurʼān with Persian interlinear translation and marginal notations. Two pages concerning istikhārah follow the text of the Qurʼān (f. 221r-221v), but are incomplete. First two pages remounted and several pages have had their edges evened.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
Illuminations (painting)
Manuscripts (documents)
Qurʼans
Islamic bindings (Binding)
Full covers
Envelope flaps (features)
Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
Manuscripts, Persian--17th century
Manuscripts, Persian--18th century - Provenance:
- Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.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).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).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).Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
- Extent:
- 14 long lines of Arabic with 14 lines of Persian in red, border-ruled.
- Publisher:
- Free Library of Philadelphia
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Rare Book Department Lewis O 16: al-Qurʼān. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book Department Lewis O 16: al-Qurʼān.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. - Identifier:
- Lewis O 16
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World
- Exhibit tags:
- mss_quran