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

Title

Devotional book

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 421
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14258959
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112158872
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_421.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14258959

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

17--?

Summary

Devotional book containing numerous selections from the Qurʼān as well as prayers and talismans.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• 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.
   

Extent

98 leaves : 130 x 85 (75 x 45) mm, bound to 130 x 89 mm

Support

Paper

Layout

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

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.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
• Manuscripts, Turkish--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Flap bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 421: 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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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Devotional book]

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Cloudbands
• fol. 2r — Illuminated header
• fol. 2r — Cloudbands
• fol. 5v — Example of gold accent
• fol. 66v — Illuminated finispiece
• fol. 67r — Illuminated finispiece
• fol. 67v — Tabular layout
• fol. 68r — Tabular layout
• fol. 68v — Tabular layout
• fol. 69r — Tabular layout
• fol. 69v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 86v — Talisman
• fol. 95r — Table
• fol. 95v — Table
• fol. 97r — Talisman
• fol. 97v — Table
• fol. 98r — Tables