Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Devotional book.

Authors

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Call number

Lewis O 160
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2522992
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131820183
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_160.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2522992

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic with some explanations in Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1850?

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Devotional book containing selections from the Qurʼān followed by prayers; several full page illuminations in polychrome and gold.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

59 leaves : 135 x 91 (86 x 46) mm bound to 135 x 95 mm

Foliation

Modern Western foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords each verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gilded inlay central mandorla with coordinating flap inlay and blind-tooled frame; leaf and flower painted paper doublure in dark red and yellow.

Layout

Written in 7 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Dual-page first opening with a purple and white textblock border and an outside decorative border in red and blue with some gold (f. 1v-2r); rectangular text division markers chiefly with green, blue, or pink outside lining and gold and polychrome fill (see. f. 43v-44r for examples); table layout with names (f. 51r, 52r-52v); polychrome illuminations (f. 53r, 54v-55r); textblock border-ruled in red; rubrications in red.

Script

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

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions
• Prayer--Islam
• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Manuscripts, Turkish--19th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations
• Prayers
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Inlays (decorative components)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Devotional book].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 11v — Text division marker
• fol. 16r — Text division marker
• fol. 24r — Text division marker
• fol. 29v — Text division marker
• fol. 35v — Text division marker
• fol. 40r — Text division marker
• fol. 43r — Text division marker
• fol. 43v — Text division marker
• fol. 44r — Text division marker
• fol. 46r — Text division marker
• fol. 48r — Text division marker
• fol. 51r — Table
• fol. 52r — Table
• fol. 52v — Table
• fol. 53r — Illuminated seal (muhr)
• fol. 54v — Illumination
• fol. 55r — Illumination
• fol. 59v — Notations in pencil