[Devotional book]
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1757
Place of publication: [Turkey or the Balkans?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Devotional literature; Prayer; Early works to 1800; Islam; Prayers and devotions; Arabic Manuscripts
Description: Book of prayers in memory of the Prophet Muḥammad (f. 1v-71v) followed by a section with names of the companions (asmāʼ al-ṣaḥābah) (f. 72v-86v).
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: 11 long lines or tables with 3 columns and 5 rows of names; folios with the most extensive marginalia are blind ruled for marginalia.

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

Decoration: Textblock is border-ruled in gold, red, black and pink. Gold and polychrome headpiece with text on abbreviated cloudbands (f. 1v). Numerous polychrome illuminated section headings, tailpieces, and marginal markers. Gilt roundels and occasional floral sprays punctuate the text. Bright, polychrome floral composition finispiece below the colophon, which is written on cloudbands (f. 71v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 178.

Origin: Copy completed in 1171 AH. by Ḥusayn al-Būsnawī, a student of al-Sayyid Sulaymān, known as Khaṭīb Muḥammad Pāshā (f. 71v).

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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.

Front cover is dark brown leather with gilt-stamped paper onlay of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, corner pieces, and a border register of cartouches with a gilt-stamped frame; back cover is gilt stamped on lighter brown leather with a diamond-shaped motif in the middle and a double frame. Doublure is glossy paper with wide pink lines on the inside of the front cover and wide, light blue lines on the inside of the back cover.

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