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

Title

Kitāb Ṣalawāt al-nahārīyah.
كتاب صلوات النهارية

Authors

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

Other related names

• Mahé, Pierre Marie, 1833-1913, former owner
• Harris, J. Rendel 1852-1941, former owner
• Wood, Walter, 1849-1934, donor
• Wood, Walter, 1849-1934, former owner

Call number

Rendel Harris 37
(Haverford, Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9910189397946049
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1113868295
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/html/harris_037.html
• https://www.haverford.edu/library

Publisher

Haverford College

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

17--?-1875?

Place

Lebanon?

Summary

Book of Christian prayers for daily use. The text is divided into three sections: 1) required prayers, 2) requests and supplications, 3) clarifications about practice. Also includes a calendar of the fixed holidays at the back.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1v).
   
• Stamp of Pierre Mahé's shop on Rue de Clichy, Paris, inside back cover along with a tipped in description of the manuscript in French.
   

Extent

102 leaves : 118 x 85 (95 x 60) mm bound to 122 x 90 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto.

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Red leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind tooled central diamond that touches all four sides of the interior frame.

Layout

14-15 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold by Pierre Mahé (stamp inside back cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Christianity--Prayers and devotions
• Christian literature, Arabic

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Manuscripts,19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Prayers (literary works)
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Kitāb Ṣalawāt al-nahārīyah.
• fol. 90v — Shuhūr al-sanah

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Description of manuscript
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "Librairie Ancienne Pierre Mahé"