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Title

Kitāb Duʻāʼ al-Jawshan
كتاب دعاء الجوشن

Other related names

• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661, attributed name
  علي بن ابي طالب،
• ʻAlī Bāy ibn Ḥaydar, Mamlūk, scribe
  علي باي بن حيدر،
• Qāʼit Bāy, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, -1496, dedicatee
  قايتباي،
• Ṣadīqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, former owner
  صديقي، محمد بن احمد،
• Sharīf, ʻUmar, reader
  شريف، عمر،
• Andalaft, Dimitri, bookseller

Call number

Penn Museum NEP26
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977571413103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1114308431
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/NEP26.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1468-1496

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Large format, illuminated copy of prayers from Kitāb Duʻāʼ al-Jawshan and the Duʻāʼ al-Sayfī, attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. The copy is dedicated to Qāʼit Bāy, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria (d. 1496). The first page of text gives the transmitter as Muḥammad ibn Zayn al-ʻArab Sharafshāh al-Ḥusaynī (p. [4]).

Notes

• Titles from caption titles (p. 3, 35).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 390 x 285 (290 x 203) mm bound to 420 x 300 mm.
   
• Laid, non-European paper; 3 widely spaced chain lines visible on each page.
   
• Added notes: Two lines of poetry asking for mistakes to be forgiven (p. [14]); an owner's note in the name Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣadīqī and a reader's note in the name ʻUmar al-Sharīf (p. 35); another reader's note (p. [60]).
   

Extent

1 online resource (31 bi-paginated leaves) :

Foliation

Modern pagination added in pencil to every other leaf, upper left recto; no catchwords.

Support

Illuminations.

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with black leather, blind stamped onlays of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, and cornerpieces; brown leather doublure.

Layout

First 14 pages written in 7 lines of 4 short lines alternating with 3 long lines; remaining pages written in the same rulings, but with 3 lines to each short section, for a total of 12 lines, 3 sets of 3 short lines, written in small script, alternating with 3 long lines.

Decoration

Dual-page illuminated first opening in blue and gold with dedication and titles in white (p. [2]-3). Large, gold roundels with red, blue, or green interiors with a gold flower design decorate the first page of text (p [4]). 8-lobed gold flower roundels with blue and red dots appear in the space at the end of each short line. Headpiece in gold and blue with title (partially scrubbed) (p. 35). Gold, red and blue finispiece with scribe's signature in ruled box with blue and gold cornerpieces (p. [60]). Textblock ruled in gold and blue. Short lines of pages 15-33 written in red with darker red headings at an angle to the outside of the line.

Script

Written in muḥaqqaq and naskh in black and red ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Purchased from Dimitri Andalaft in 1924
   
• Formerly owned by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣadīqī (owner's note p. [35]).
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens

Genres

• Fascimiles
• Illuminations (painting)
• Notes (documents)
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 15th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 2 — Duʻāʼ al-Jawshan
• 35 — Duʻāʼ al-Sayfī

Decorations

• 2 — Illuminated frontispiece
• 3 — Illuminated frontispiece
• 4 — Illuminated roundels
• 14 — Notations
• 35 — Illuminated headpiece
• 35 — Notations
• 60 — Illuminated colophon and finispiece
• 60 — Reader's note