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Title

Rātib al-mahdī.
راتب المهدي

Authors

• Nashāwī, Ḥasan Sayyid Aḥmad, active 1885
  نشاوي، حسن سيد احمد

Call number

Ms. Codex 39
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914696383503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1302 (1885)

Summary

Collection of prayers and excerpts from the Qurʼān; leaves and quires are loose.

Notes

• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Watermark

Abū Shubbāk (crescent face in a shield) with signature in Latin cursive script.

Extent

35 leaves: 212 x 155 (170 x 80) mm bound to 215 x 165 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cardboard with mottled paper sides and flap (Type II); red leather spine and fore-edge hinge; plain paper doublure with red fabric spine and fore-edge hinge lining. The binding is loose from the textblock and appears never to have been bound to it.

Layout

15 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in purple.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Accessioned 1964.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Rātib al-mahdī.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Simple headpiece