Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Devotional book.

Other related names

• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, donor
• Parke-Bernet Galleries, auctioneer

Call number

BV 71
(Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135061894
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_071.html
• https://tricolib.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TRI_INST:BMC

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Libraries

Language

Arabic with one rubric in Persian

Origin

Date

between 1725 and 1825?

Summary

Devotional book containing selections from the Qurʼān, beginning with Sūrat Yūsuf and ending with a prayer. The entire text is written inside gilt pear-shapes with illuminated margins.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Customs stamp in Persian dated 1315 (1897 or 1898) (f. 97v).
   

Extent

Iii, 98, i leaves : 120 x 70 (97 x 50) mm bound to 120 x 70 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

The text is disbound, the covers are thin reddish leather over pulpboard (Type III) with gilt stamped central mandorla and frame with floral fill between the central design and the frame and a different floral fill inside the frame itself. Inside covers are brown leather with gold tooled frame.

Layout

Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled in a pear-shape.

Decoration

Each page gold frame-ruled with foliate fill, inside the frame is a gold bordered pear shape around the text. Between the frame and the border-rule is blue fill, more solidly colored at the bottom leading to vines and feathered finials at the top. Two openings have a wider gold border around the text with floral fill (f. 1v-2r, 60v-61r). Rubrications in red, including readings and titles. 4 unwritten pages, with the pear-shape outline present, at the end (f. 97r-98v).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Howard Lehman Goodhart.
   
• Sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1945.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions
• Manuscripts, 18th century

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Special Collections BV 71: Devotional book. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Devotional book].

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Circular medallion
• fol. 1r — Customs stamp
• fol. 1v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2v — Illuminated border-rules, fill and frame (every page)
• fol. 60v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 61r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 86v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 87r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 97r — Circular medallion
• fol. 97v — Customs stamp