Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Collection of prayers.

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 131
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13616635
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076546594
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_131.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13616635

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic with some Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

between 1725 and 1825?

Place

Turkey?

Summary

A book of prayers in Arabic, with instructions in Ottoman Turkish about how the prayers are to be recited. Notes have also been attached to the main support.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

60 leaves : 170 x 105 (120 x 60) mm, bound to 170 x 105 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather with flap; covers are blind stamped with paper onlay with a green stamped design. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Layout

9 long lines, sometimes staggered, with some marginalia.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; diagrams in red and black (f. 9v).

Script

Naskh in black ink; vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions
• Mysticism--Islam
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Codices
• Prayers
• Diagrams
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Pastedowns
• Trough-marbled paper
• Onlays
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — [Collection of prayers]

Decorations

• fol. 9v — Diagram
• fol. 17v — Table of symbols