Collection ID: 0006 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Devotional Book.

Authors

• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College)

Other related names

• ʻUmar ʻAfāʻat Hamlar, former owner
  عمر عفاعت هملر،
• Harris, J. Rendel 1852-1941, former owner

Call number

Rendel Harris 35
(Haverford, Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9910189397945049
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1113868219
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/html/harris_035.html
• https://www.haverford.edu/library

Publisher

Haverford College

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Devotional book containing prayers and selections from the Qurʼān.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

I, 64, i leaves : 150 x 100 (95 x 52) mm, bound to 150 x 105 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto.

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gilt-stamped onlays of central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and frame.

Layout

11 long lines.

Decoration

Polychrome and gold headpiece (f. 1v); polychrome and gold marginal medallions; textblock ruled in gold, black, red; gold roundels with blue and red dots in the center and around the edge punctuate text.

Script

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

Provenance

• Formerly owned by ʻUmar ʻAfāʻat Hamlar (f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Prayers (literary works)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Onlays (decoration)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Devotional book]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Description of manuscript
• fol. 1r — Owner's notation
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 4r — Example of marginal medallion