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

Title

Kitāb al-adʻiyah
[كتاب الادعية]

Other related names

• Ṭūsī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar, scribe
  طوسي، محمد باقر بن محمد جعفر،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 136
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15195450
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1224550943
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_136.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15195450

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic and Persian

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1799?

Summary

Copy of a book on prayer and the times of day; some sections with interlinear translation into Persian in red; the first page has been repaired with the text rewritten. A few pages of the Ziyāratʹnāmah, attributed to Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, are included at the front of the copy.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Customs stamp solar dated 1312/1934 (f. 4r, 150v).
   

Extent

X, 150, iii leaves : 150 x 80 (95 x 40) mm, bound to 155 x 85 x 25 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather with blind tooled frame; brown leather doublure.

Layout

Written in 9 long lines.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece (f. 4v); floral marginal fill (f. 4v-5r); textblock border-ruled in red and gold; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq and naskh in black ink; pointed; naskh fully vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934 (library donation plate, first flyleaf verso at front of book).
   
• Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Shīʻah--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Ziyāratʹnāmah
• fol. 4v — [Kitāb al-adʻiyah]

Decorations

• fol. 4r — Customs stamp
• fol. 4v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 4v — Marginal fill
• fol. 5r — Marginal fill
• fol. 150v — Customs stamp