Ziyārat-i ʻĀshūrāʼ
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1750
Place of publication: [Iran?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Tomb; Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages; Shiite shrines; Prayer; Islam; Tenth of Muḥarram; Prayers; Arabic Manuscripts; Tombs
Description: Book of prayers to say during visits to sacred sites including during the ʻĀshūrā pilgrimage, when visiting the grave of al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī. Prayers in Arabic with Persian instruction and some translation.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from headpiece (f. 1v).

Layout: 11 and 7 lines per page, border-ruled.

Script: Naskh for the Arabic and nastaʻlīq for some Persian; black ink, pointed with Arabic vocalized.

Decoration: Gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece (f. 1v). Border-rules in red, gold, blue; page-frame ruled in black; lines ruled in gold. Rubrications in red and blue.

Origin: Item not dated, likely copied in the mid-18th to mid-19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 173.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic and Persian.

Customs stamp dated 1312/1894-95 (f. 1r, 85v) and an undated customs stamp (f. 85v). Owner's stamp (f. 1r).

Lacquer binding with red, orange and black designs. Purple paper doublure.

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