[Devotional book]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Language: ara
Number of pages: 98
Subjects: Islam; Prayers and devotions; Early works to 1800; Arabic Manuscripts; Turkish Manuscripts
Other titles: Qurʼan. Selections.
Description: Devotional book containing numerous selections from the Qurʼān as well as prayers and talismans.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Layout: Chiefly 7 long lines, with some tables and tabular layouts.

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

Decoration: Illuminated headpieces in gold, yellow, blue, red and green with the text on cloudbands and a wide gold border rule (f. 1v, 69v); facing page also written on cloudbands with a wide gold border rule (f. 1r, 70r); gold roundels punctuate text; textblock border-ruled in gold; some in-text gold accents (for example f. 5v); gold text dividers; two simple gold finispieces (f. 66v-67r); some rubrications in faded red.

Origin: Item is undated; probably produced in the 18th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 421.

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap; gilt stamped diaper grid pattern and gold frame; flap gilt stamped with vines; pink paper pastedowns; matching red leather case with tie, stamped in the same grid pattern as the codex on the front and a smaller, simplified diaper grid pattern on the back.

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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.

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

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.

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