Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Prayers for the month of Rajab.

Other related names

• Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner
• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 134
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977642242503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131863508
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_134.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1899?

Summary

Prayers and guidelines for practice for the month of Rajab beginning with a prayer for Yawm al-mabʻath.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Iii, 67, iii leaves : 130 x 75 (100 x 40) mm bound to 135 x 80 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Rebound in red suede with horizontal bands along spine.

Layout

Written in 14 long lines

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in gold and black; gold rectangle painted above first line (f. 1v); rubrications in gold that has discolored to green and is burning through the paper.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead (bookplate inside back cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Rajab--Prayers and devotions
• Islam--Prayers and devotions
• Islam--Customs and practices

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Prayers for the month of Rajab].

Decorations

• Front cover — Label: "L/197"
• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1v — Gold painted headpiece
• fol. 17v — Notations
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "George Dunn of Woolley Hall"