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

Title

Devotional book.

Other related names

• Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼan, Aḥmad, scribe
  حافظ القرأن، احمد.
• McClenahan, Jean P., 1908-1994, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1902
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977406952203681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1059578218

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1830 and 1899?

Summary

Devotional book containing selections from the Qur'an followed by prayers; several full page illuminations in polychrome and gold.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Paper: Different types of paper make up the volume, including machine-made Ottoman.
   
• Funeral announcement for Ḥusayn Rushdī Pasha (1863-1928), prime minister of Egypt (1914-1919), laid in.
   

Extent

101 leaves : 170 x 105 (115 x 65) mm bound to 170 x 120 mm

Foliation

Modern Western foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords most versos, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Dark brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind stamped mandorla with two pendants on both outside covers, along with gilded, embossed paper inlays and gilt stamped corners and frame; mandorla and frame gilt-stamped on inside covers as well.

Layout

9 long lines with border rules.

Decoration

Titles in white ink, framed in gold and floriated designs; textblock ruled in gold, red, black; gold roundels with red, blue, and green dots punctuate the text; polychrome and gold medallions in the margins; double page illuminations in polychrome and gold with text on cloudbands (f. 1v-2r, 5v-6,); full page illuminations of the name Allāh (f. 97v) and Muḥammad (f. 98r), two seals: muhr nubbūt (f. 98v), muhr Sulaymān (f. 99r) and a dual page illumination that includes the names of the first four Caliphs and Ḥusayn and Ḥasan (f. 99v-100r).

Script

Written in clear naskh using black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Mrs. William McClenahan, likely Jean P., wife of Dr. William U. McClenahan, given to the libraries in 1969 (note in pencil on back flyleaf 1v).
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions
• Prayer--Islam

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Prayers (literary works)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Devotional Book]

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 5v — Headpiece and cloudbands
• fol. 97v — Illuminated name: Allāh
• fol. 98r — Illuminated name: Muḥammad
• fol. 98v — Illuminated seal
• fol. 99r — Illuminated seal
• fol. 99v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 100r — Dual page illumination