Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Collection of prayers and charms.

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 40
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958166593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/808635847
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5816659 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs40.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1850?

Summary

Collection of prayers, including several based on the Āyat al-Kursī, and several others for each day of the week.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Walking lion.

Extent

150 leaves : 173 x 116 (120 x 70) mm bound to 173 x 124 mm

Collation

Paper, 150; 1-15¹⁰. Catchwords on each page, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); flap does not fit the fore-edge of the textblock, possibly a re-purposed cover; blind stamped circular flowers in center, on corners and in the middle of each edge; blind-tooled frame.

Layout

Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Simple gilt headpieces, some with titles entered in red and others empty; textblock border-ruled in red; red dots with tails punctuate the text.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed .

Provenance

• Sold by bookseller Thomas Thorpe to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 2370 (spine label, stamp on f. 1r).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's in a sale of Phillipps manuscripts, 25 Nov. 1968, lot 242.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Islamic magic--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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Decorations

• fol. 148r — Table, f. 148r
• fol. 149r — Table, f. 149r