Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 40: Collection of prayers and charms. University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 40: Collection of prayers and charms. 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/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 40 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 Collection of prayers, including several based on the Āyat al-Kursī, and several others for each day of the week. Arabic Collection of prayers and charms. former owner Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 former owner Schoenberg, Lawrence J

paper

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

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

 Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled. Written in naskh in black ink; pointed . Simple gilt headpieces, some with titles entered in red and others empty; textblock border-ruled in red; red dots with tails punctuate the text. Table, f. 148r Table, f. 149r

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.

The item is undated, probably late 18th or early 19th century.

between 1750 and 1850? 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. Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800 Islamic magic--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic Manuscripts, 18th century Manuscripts, Digital Codices (bound manuscripts) Prayers