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

Title

Collection of prayers

Other related names

• Muḥsin al-Sharīf al-Ḥusaynī, active 1849, scribe
  محسن الشريف الحسيني،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, donor

Call number

MS Or 142
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14635620
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1145327232
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_142.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14635620

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic with a short introduction in Persian

Origin

Date

1849

Summary

Book of short prayers for different times of day, days of week, and parts of the lunar month.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 220a).
   

Extent

202 leaves : 158 x 80 (120 x 57) mm, bound to 155 x 82 x 25 mm

Support

European laid paper with watermarks

Binding

Light brown leather with blind ruled frame of parallel lines; manuscript is bound along the top short edge (safīnah style).

Layout

10 long lines; catchwords each verso, lower left.

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in black and red; page frame-ruled in black; rubrications and overlining in red; table in red and blue (f. 2r).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized; one table and some headings in nastaʻlīq in red and blue; pointed.

Provenance

• Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Prayers (literary works)
• Tables (documents)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Collection of prayers].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1r — Notations in ink
• fol. 2r — Table