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

Title

Prayer in the form of praise of the Prophet

Authors

• Maḥallāwī, Muḥammad al-Miṣrī
  محلاوي، محمد المصري

Other related names

• Dāghtānī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥusayn, associated name
  داغتاني، عبد الله بن حسين،
• Ayyūb Shamʻī, associated name
  ايوب شمعي،
• Hull, Helen R. 1888-1971, former owner
• Hull, Helen R. 1888-1971, donor

Call number

MS Or 449
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14635469
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1145170689
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_449.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14635469

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

17--?-18--?

Summary

Prayer in the form of praise to the Prophet with an introduction. A concluding note mentions that al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Sayyid Ḥusayn al-Dāghtānī approved of the recitation (ajāza), approval which was also granted to Ayyūb Shamʻī (f. 36v). A leaf in a different hand included at the back of the copy is a selection from the Qurʼān containing verses 9-25 from Sūrat al-Anfāl (f. [38]).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   

Extent

Ii, 38, ii leaves : 172x 120 (157 x 77) mm, bound to 172 x 120 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Reddish brown leather over pasteboard with flap; gold painted central diaper grid pattern with frame of parallel lines and cornerpieces; purple paper doublure.

Layout

11 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in black, gold, and red; gold roundels with red and blue points.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Helen R. Hull, 1968.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Early works

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Prayer in the form of praise of the Prophet.]
• fol. 38r — Sūrat al-Anfāl 9-25

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• Inside front cover — Library donor plate
• fol. 1v — Illluminated headpiece
• fol. 2v — Gold text divider
• fol. 36v — Gold text divider
• fol. 36v — Cloudbands