Collection ID: 0012 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Other related names

• Du Simitière, Pierre Eugène, approximately 1736-1784, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88140545)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

[Caribbean?]

Summary

Talismanic charm written large format to be folded; mostly comprised of several, repeated, verses from the Qurʾān. A few words in Soninke in Arabic letters.

Notes

• Watermarked European paper
   

Watermark

Extent

Foliation

Support

Layout

Decoration

Alternating sections of text in red and brown; geometric design on the reverse side of the page in one corner.

Script

Provenance

• Part of the Du Simitière print collection
   

Subjects topical

• Islam, prayers and devotions
• Talismans

Genres

• Talismans

Keywords

• Talismans
• Arabic
• Illumination
• Prayers
• Soninke
• Charms

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Library Company B10.F4: Charm 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

• Side 1 — [Charm]

Decorations

• Side 2 — Illumination