Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Devotional book.

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, donor
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 132
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968530023503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/954274739
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6853002 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms132.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1899?

Summary

Loose leaf codex of prayers; copied in two hands.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Item is undated, but likely produced in the 19th century.
   
• Catalog entry, 313, pasted to outside back cover.
   
• Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
   

Extent

146 leaves : 220 x 175 (155 x 125) mm bound to 235 x 185 mm

Foliation

Paper, 146; [1-146], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Unbound leaves between two boards with a leather strap attached to one board to wrap up the bundle.

Decoration

Geometric designs in red and brown on first and last pages (f. 1r, 146r); several other geometric designs throughout the text (f. 1v, 6r, 8r, 25v, 29r, 45r, 54v, 63v, 67v, 77v, 81r, 107r, 118r); rubrications in red.

Script

Written in West African maghribī script in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of John Frederick Lewis to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (inscription on bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Prayers (documents)
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Rectangular geometric design, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated text, f. 1v
• fol. 6r — Decorated text, f. 6r
• fol. 8r — Rectangular geometric design, f. 8r
• fol. 25v — Decorated text, f. 25v
• fol. 29r — Circular geometric design, f. 29r
• fol. 45r — Circular geometric design, f. 45r
• fol. 54v — Rectangular geometric design, f. 54v
• fol. 63v — Circular geometric design, f. 63v
• fol. 67v — Rectangular geometric design, f. 67v
• fol. 77v — Rectangular geometric design, f. 77v
• fol. 81r — Circular geometric design, f. 81r
• fol. 107r — Circular geometric design, f. 107r
• fol. 118r — Rectangular geometric design, f. 118r
• fol. 146r — Rectangular geometric design, f. 146r