Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ziyārat-i ʻĀshūrāʼ.
زیارت عاشوراء

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 173
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13616804
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076552110
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_173.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13616804

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic and Persian

Origin

Date

17--? - 18--?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Book of prayers to say during visits to sacred sites including during the ʻĀshūrā pilgrimage, when visiting the grave of al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī. Prayers in Arabic with Persian instruction and some translation.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from headpiece (f. 1v).
   

Extent

7, 78, 15, 9 leaves : 180 x 112 (118 x 52) mm, bound to 183 x 115 x 14 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Lacquer binding with red, orange and black designs. Purple paper doublure.

Layout

11 and 7 lines per page, border-ruled.

Decoration

Gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece (f. 1v). Border-rules in red, gold, blue; page-frame ruled in black; lines ruled in gold. Rubrications in red and blue.

Script

Naskh for the Arabic and nastaʻlīq for some Persian; black ink, pointed with Arabic vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Customs stamp dated 1312/1894-95 (f. 1r, 85v) and an undated customs stamp (f. 85v). Owner's stamp (f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Iraq--Karbalāʼ--Early works to 1800
• Shiite shrines--Early works to 1800
• Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800
• Tenth of Muḥarram--Prayers--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Codices
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Ziyārat-i ʻĀshūrāʼ.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece.