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

Title

Devotional book.

Other related names

• Kūtāhī, Muṣṭafá, active 1771, scribe
  كوتاهي، مصطفى، active 1771،
• Kohn, Blanche Wolf, donor

Call number

BV 53
(Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135061961
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_053.html
• https://tricolib.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TRI_INST:BMC

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Libraries

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1771 or 1772

Place

Iran?

Summary

Devotional book containing selections from the Qurʼān, several illuminated seals (muhr) and calligraphic drawings with the names of God, the Prophet Muḥammad, other Imams and family members; three blank pages at the end have been prepared for drawing but left unfilled (f. 69v-70v).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• A letter dated November 1, 1923 to Edwin Wolf from Cyrus Adler of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning describing the manuscript is laid in.
   

Extent

70 foliated leaves : 175 x 120 (108 x 54) mm bound to 175 x 127 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in paper with large, gilded flower and frame; remnants of a red spine.

Layout

Written in 9 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

All pages have gold, foliate marginal fill; textblock is border-ruled in a wide gold band with a repeating geometric pattern in black and a narrow, red outside rule. Illuminated headpiece in gold with red, blue, and green on first opening (f. 1v); all section titles are in white ink on a gold background outlined in a colored box. Polychrome floral medallions in the margins and gold, lobed circles with orange and blue dots mark verse endings. 16 pages of illuminations and illustrations (f. 61v-69r).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Blanche Wolf Kohn, Bryn Mawr College 1908, on 2 June 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Special Collections BV 53: 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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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Devotional book]

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1r — Illuminated margins (every page)
• fol. 27r — Example of marginal medallion
• fol. 27r — Example of illuminated text divider
• fol. 60r — Illuminated corner fill
• fol. 61v — Illuminated panel: Muhr ism Allāh
• fol. 62r — Illuminated panel: Muhr Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq
• fol. 62v — Illuminated panel: Lafẓat al-Jalāl
• fol. 63r — Illuminated panel: Ism al-Nabī
• fol. 63v — Illuminated panel: Rasm Abū Bakr al-Ṣadīq
• fol. 64r — Illuminated panel: Rasm ʻUmar al-Fārūq
• fol. 64v — Illuminated panel: Rasm ʻUthmān
• fol. 65r — Illuminated panel: Rasm ʻAlī
• fol. 65v — Illuminated panel: Rasm Ḥasan
• fol. 66r — Illuminated panel: Rasm Ḥusayn
• fol. 66v — Illuminated panel: Muhr nubūwat al-Nabī
• fol. 67r — Illuminated panel: Muhr nubūwat al-Rasūl
• fol. 67v — Illuminated panel: Rasm ʻayn ʻAlī
• fol. 68r — Illuminated panel: Gūl Muḥammadī
• fol. 68v — Illuminated panel: Rasm kalām Allāh
• fol. 69r — Illuminated panel: Khirqat Rasūl Allāh