Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—19th century [Browse]

Scribe

• Āz̲nahvī, ʻAlī Riḍāʼī ibn Ismaʻīl, active 1839 [Browse]
• آذنه‌وى، علي رضائى بن اسمعيل،, active 1839، [Browse]

Former owner

Morris, Lydia Thompson, 1849-1932 [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.

Notes

• Binding: Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gilt-stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; matching flap with fore-edge quotation beginning "la yalmashu illā al-muṭahharīn"; marbled paper doublure.
• Decoration: Dual page illuminated first opening in gold with floral borders (f. 1v-2r); gold floral finispiece (f. 303v); sūrah titles signified by gold bars lined in pink, orange, or blue; textblock border-ruled in red and gold; gold roundels with blue and orange dots mark verse endings; readings in red; floral marginal medallions mark text divisions.
• Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil added upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: 15 long lines, border-ruled.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Copy completed in 1255 A.H. (1839 CE) by ʻAlī Riḍāʼī ibn Ismaʻīl al-Āz̲nahvī, a student of Muḥammad Saʻīd al-Āz̲nahvī (f. 303v).
• Script: Written in neat naskh in black ink, pointed and vocalized.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Formerly owned Lydia T. Morris (stamp in gutter, f. 3r).

Other title(s)

Koran

OCLC

1131820060

Original language

• [القرآن].
• آذنه‌وى، علي رضائى بن اسمعيل،,

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