Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Devotional book.

Other related names

• Ghazlāwī, Muḥammad, active 1842, former owner
  غزلاوي، محمد،
• Spitzer, Doreen Canaday, donor

Call number

BV 48
(Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135058527
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_048.html
• https://tricolib.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TRI_INST:BMC

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Libraries

Language

Arabic with some titles in Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

1777

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Devotional book containing selections from the Qurʼān, other short prayers and illuminated panels and calligraphic drawings. Several pages of prayers in a different hand at the end with the last page inverted (f. 71v-76v). Some titles in Ottoman Turkish.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• A waqf statement indicates that Muḥammad al-Ghazlāwī donated this book in 1258 A.H. (1842 or 1843) (f. 1r)
   

Extent

I, 76, i leaves : 162 x 105 (103 x 54) mm bound to 163 x 107 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather over pasteboard (Type III); gilt stamped paper onlay central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis with gold tooled frame on front cover; back cover has blind-stamped central mandorla.

Layout

Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated polychrome and gold headpiece on first page (f. 1v); textblock is border-ruled in gold and red; gold roundels mark verse endings; gold bars divide sections of the Qurʼān; rubrications in red, including readings and titles; 5 full-page illuminated panels with descriptions of the Prophet and Ḥadīth (f. 58r-60r)

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Presumed to be a gift of Doreen Canaday Spitzer.
   
• Formerly owned by Muḥammad al-Ghazlāwī (waqf note f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Onlays (decorative components)

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Special Collections BV 48: Devotional book. 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/.

  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Devotional book]

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Waqf notice
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 58r — Illumination
• fol. 58v — Illumination
• fol. 59r — Illumination
• fol. 59v — Illumination
• fol. 60r — Illumination