[Collection of prayers and selections from the Qurʼān]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Place of publication: [Turkey?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Prayer; Early works to 1800; Islam; Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Description: Collection of prayers, excerpts from the Qurʼān and calligraphic illuminations.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: 9 lines generally forming an oval shape, border-ruled with corner decorations; several leaves have full page calligraphic illuminations.

Script: Naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Calligraphic lluminations and headers in thuluth.

Decoration: Polychrome and gold floral headpiece (f. 1v); floral sprays in gold, or green and pink or red in the corners of the textblock on each leaf shape the text to an oval; textblock border-ruled in black and gold; gold roundels punctuate the text. Circular or oval calligraphic panels set into a frame of gold with pink or blue highlights and floral sprays in the corners (f. 22v-26v).

Origin: Item is not dated, but likely produced in the 18th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 138.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR.

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Brown leather with envelope flap with gold ruled border and floral central motif. Green, glossy, embossed doublure.

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