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Title

Prayers and commentary.

Other related names

• Ilyās ibn Khamzah ʻAlī Niyat ʻAlī ibn Khamzah, active 1484, scribe
  الياس بن خمزه علي نيت علي بن خمزه, d
• Schiller, Johann Michael, 17th cent, former owner
• Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 38
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958164163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/808630063
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5816416 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs38.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic, with commentary in Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

A.H. 889 (1484)

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Collection of prayers in Arabic, each preceded by a commentary in Ottoman Turkish, with a diagram (f. 217v) and information at the end for calculating the direction of Mecca from different latitudes. Sections of copious marginal notes at the end of the manuscript (f. 185r-186r, 192r-201v, 208r-209v, 216v-220r). Later notes and pen trials in naskh script on front flyleaf.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

221 leaves : 140 x 100 (83 x 62) mm. bound to 140 x 112 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 221; 1⁶ 2¹² 3⁸ 4¹² 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹²(-2) 9⁸ 10⁷ 11-12⁶ 13-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17-19¹⁰ 20¹² 21⁸ 22² 23⁸ 24² 25⁸ 26¹⁰; 1-108, [i], 109-220, later European foliation in ink, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gilt stamped central medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis on covers, coordinating stamp on flap; reddish leather doublure; labels on spine; description of manuscript in German on note pasted to inside upper cover.

Layout

Written in 11 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Black or red woodcut fillet border on each page; rubrications in red or green ink; some leaves stained yellow or red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Johann Michael Schiller, 1655 (inscription inside lower cover; another 17th-century inscription on the inside lower cover is not legible).
   
• Formerly owned by Leander van Ess; sold as part of his collection in 1823 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 757 (spine label, stamp and number in ink on f. 1 recto).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 26 Nov. 1968, lot 245, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Prayers
• Annotations
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
• Manuscripts, Turkish--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

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