[Devotional book]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Place of publication: Iran?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Islam; Prayers and devotions; Early works to 1800; Prayer; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: Qurʼan. Selections.
Description: Contains a selection of 55 chapters from the Qur'ān with other prayers.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 10 ruled lines; border-ruled.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; some elements in nastaʻliq; pointed, partially vocalized.

Decoration: Dual-page illuminated first opening with polychrome and gold headpiece, gold floral margin fill and text on cloudbands (f. 1v-[2]r). All other pages are ruled in between each line in gold and black and border-ruled in gold, black, red. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Rubrications in red, including headers and readings.

Origin: Item is not dated, but likely copied in Iran in the 18th century or first half of the 19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 203.

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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.

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

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic and Persian.

Customs stamp dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, 171v).

Lacquer cover with red central floral medallion with painted flower in-fill and two matching pendants along the vertical axis on an orange background with an inscribed frame in off white on a red background. Bright orange paper doublure.

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