Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Devotional book

Other related names

• Commercial Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.), former owner

Call number

Penn Museum 2003-82-445
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977571453603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112608132
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/2003_82_445.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1850 and 1899?

Place

West Africa?

Summary

Loose leaf copy of portions of a book of prayers divided by day. This copy contains parts of prayers said on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and is in catchword order, though leaves are missing. Some leaves have been replaced in a different hand, on modern, lined paper (text is written perpendicular to the lines).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 96 x 126 (70 x 90) mm.
   
• Machine-made paper; ruled by folding.
   

Extent

1 online resource (82 loose leaves)

Foliation

Leaves are unfoliated and loose; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Binding

Unbound; loose leaf codex with nothing to hold the leaves together.

Layout

Written in 6 long lines.

Script

Written in a maghribī influenced West African naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions

Genres

• Fascimiles
• Prayer books
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 19th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Devotional book]