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Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—18th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Oriental—18th century [Browse]

Former owner

• Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843 [Browse]
• Muhammad Ali Khan, Umdat al-Mulk Anwar al-Din, Nawab of Arcot, 1717 or 1718-1795 [Browse]
• محمد على خان، عمدة الملك انوار الدين، نواب اركات،, 1717 or 1718-1795 ، [Browse]
• Bement, Clarence S. (Clarence Sweet), 1843-1923 [Browse]
• Goldsmid, Isaac L. (Isaac Lyon), 1778-1859 [Browse]
• Ogg, Samuel William, Major-General, -1828 [Browse]

Scribe

• Istirābādī, Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Ṣādiq, active 1739 [Browse]
• استرابادى، محمد جعفر بن محمد صادق،, active 1739، [Browse]

Related name

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

Complete copy of the Qurʼān with Persian interlinear translation that ends in the middle of al-Shuʻarāʼ verse 35 (26:35). A prayer and notes on the commissioning and copying of the work at the end (f. 496v-497r).

Notes

• 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.
• 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 colored blue or pink; text divisions marked in gold in the margin.
• Foliation: Unfoliated leaves; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: Written in 22 long lines, 11 larger lines of Arabic and 11 smaller lines of Persian; line and border-ruled.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Copy completed on 14 Shawwāl 1151 (25 January 1739) by Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Ṣādiq Istirābādī (f. 497r).
• Script: Written in naskh and nastaʻlīq in black ink, pointed and vocalized.
• Title from colophon (f. 497r).

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic and Persian.

Provenance

• Commissioned by the Nawwāb Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān in Arcot for his son Jaʻfar (f. 497r).
• Formerly owned by Clarence S. Bement (bookplate inside front cover).
• 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, pages 337).
• Sold at the Sussex sale to Isaac L. Goldsmid.

Other title(s)

Koran

OCLC

1243897988

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