[İlmihâl]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Place of publication: Turkey?]
Language: ota
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Islam; Customs and practices; Doctrines; Turkish Manuscripts
Other titles: İlm-i hâl
Description: Text listing and explaining basic Muslim beliefs and describing ritual practices. Includes information on the ritual prayers, the names of the Sunnī schools of thought, some selections from the Qurʼān, and other topics of general Islamic education.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: 9 long lines; border-ruled; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Polychrome and gold headpiece (f. 1v); textblock border-ruled in gold and black; overlines and rubricatons in red; gold roundels punctuate text.

Origin: The item is undated, possibly 18th or 19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 451.

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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 Helen R. Hull, 1968 (library bookplate inside front cover).

Ottoman Turkish.

Reddish brown leather with stamped central mandorla.

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