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Title

Devotional book.

Other related names

• Būsnawī, Ḥusayn, scribe
  بوسنوي، حسين.
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 178
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13619027
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076587456
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_178.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13619027

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1757-58

Place

Turkey or the Balkans?

Summary

Book of prayers in memory of the Prophet Muḥammad (f. 1v-71v) followed by a section with names of the companions (asmāʼ al-ṣaḥābah) (f. 72v-86v).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

86 leaves : 198 x 130 (132 x 72) mm, bound to 198 x 136 x 16 mm

Support

Non-European laid paper

Binding

Front cover is dark brown leather with gilt-stamped paper onlay of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, corner pieces, and a border register of cartouches with a gilt-stamped frame; back cover is gilt stamped on lighter brown leather with a diamond-shaped motif in the middle and a double frame. Doublure is glossy paper with wide pink lines on the inside of the front cover and wide, light blue lines on the inside of the back cover.

Layout

11 long lines or tables with 3 columns and 5 rows of names; folios with the most extensive marginalia are blind ruled for marginalia.

Decoration

Textblock is border-ruled in gold, red, black and pink. Gold and polychrome headpiece with text on abbreviated cloudbands (f. 1v). Numerous polychrome illuminated section headings, tailpieces, and marginal markers. Gilt roundels and occasional floral sprays punctuate the text. Bright, polychrome floral composition finispiece below the colophon, which is written on cloudbands (f. 71v).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800
• Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Prayers
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Devotional Book].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated frontispiece
• fol. 7r — Example of polychrome heading
• fol. 71v — Floral finispiece
• fol. 73v — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), alif
• fol. 74r — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), bā' and tā'
• fol. 74v — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), thā' and jīm
• fol. 75r — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), ḥā'
• fol. 75v — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), khā'
• fol. 76r — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), dhāl
• fol. 76v — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), rā'
• fol. 77r — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), zā' and sīn
• fol. 77v — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), sīn
• fol. 78r — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), sīn
• fol. 78v — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), shīn, ṣād, and ḍāḍ
• fol. 79r — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), ṭā' and 'aīn
• fol. 79v — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), 'aīn
• fol. 80r — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), 'aīn
• fol. 80v — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), 'aīn
• fol. 81r — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), 'aīn
• fol. 81v — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), 'aīn
• fol. 82r — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), ghaīn, fā', and qāf
• fol. 82v — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), kāf, lām, and mīm
• fol. 83r — Patronymics of the prophet's companions (al-ṣaḥāba)
• fol. 83v — Patronymics of the prophet's companions (al-ṣaḥāba)
• fol. 84r — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), nūn
• fol. 84v — List: companions (al-ṣaḥāba), hā' and wāw
• fol. 85r — Patronymics of the prophet's companions (al-ṣaḥāba)