Hādhā ḥijāb ʻaẓīm al-shaʼn wa-al-burhān
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1800
Language: ara
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Islam; Prayers and devotions; Early works to 1800; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: Ḥijāb ʻaẓīm al-shaʼn wa-al-burhān; Ḥijāb al-ʻaẓīm
Work titles: Ḥijāb al-ʻaẓīm
Description: Copy of a small devotional book with prayers and incantations for luck and health. In another copy, the text is attributed to Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Layout: 8 or 9 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Script: Written in informal naskh in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in double red; overlining in red.

Origin: Item is undated, probably produced in the 19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 389.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. 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.

Brown leather over pasteboard with flap; blind-stamped, long central cartouche and cornerpieces that meet along the long edges, with paper onlays; remnants of blue paper doublure with gilt stamped pattern of flowers and stems inside crossing diagonal lines.

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