BV 71 Devotional book.
Title
Devotional book.Other related names
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, donor
- Parke-Bernet Galleries, auctioneer
Call number
BV 71(Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
Bryn Mawr College LibrariesLanguage
Arabic with one rubric in PersianOrigin
Item is undated, perhaps written in the 18th or early 19th century.
- Date
- between 1725 and 1825?
Summary
Devotional book containing selections from the Qurʼān, beginning with Sūrat Yūsuf and ending with a prayer. The entire text is written inside gilt pear-shapes with illuminated margins.
Notes
- Manuscript codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Customs stamp in Persian dated 1315 (1897 or 1898) (f. 97v).
Extent
Iii, 98, i leaves : 120 x 70 (97 x 50) mm bound to 120 x 70 mmFoliation
Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords each verso, lower left.Support
PaperBinding
The text is disbound, the covers are thin reddish leather over pulpboard (Type III) with gilt stamped central mandorla and frame with floral fill between the central design and the frame and a different floral fill inside the frame itself. Inside covers are brown leather with gold tooled frame.Layout
Decoration
Each page gold frame-ruled with foliate fill, inside the frame is a gold bordered pear shape around the text. Between the frame and the border-rule is blue fill, more solidly colored at the bottom leading to vines and feathered finials at the top. Two openings have a wider gold border around the text with floral fill (f. 1v-2r, 60v-61r). Rubrications in red, including readings and titles. 4 unwritten pages, with the pear-shape outline present, at the end (f. 97r-98v).
Script
Provenance
- Gift of Howard Lehman Goodhart.
- Sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1945.
Subjects topical
- Islam--Prayers and devotions
- Manuscripts, 18th century
Genres
- Manuscripts, Arabic
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Illuminations (painting)
Licenses
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- Text
- These images and the content of Special Collections BV 71: 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
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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- Text
- To the extent possible under law, Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Special Collections BV 71: Devotional book.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.
- URL
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Decorations
- fol. 1r — Circular medallion
- fol. 1r — Customs stamp
- fol. 1v — Dual-page illuminated opening
- fol. 2r — Dual-page illuminated opening
- fol. 2v — Illuminated border-rules, fill and frame (every page)
- fol. 60v — Dual-page illuminated opening
- fol. 61r — Dual-page illuminated opening
- fol. 86v — Dual-page illuminated opening
- fol. 87r — Dual-page illuminated opening
- fol. 97r — Circular medallion
- fol. 97v — Customs stamp
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