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

Title

Devotional book

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 184
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14835001
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1151770109
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_184.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14835001

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Devotional book chiefly containing selections from the Qurʼān including sūrat Yā Sīn, al-Fatḥ, al-Mulk, al-Nabāʼ, and al-Takāthur through al-Nās inclusive, these are followed by several individual verses and prayers; the text concludes with al-Fātiḥah and another prayer.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

I, 40 leaves : 165 x 115 (120 x 75 ) mm, bound to 165 x 120 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Red leather with gilt-stamped central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis; gold-tooled frame. Only back board remains.

Layout

7 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.

Decoration

Headpiece in gold (now greenish), blue and pink; gold roundels mark verse endings; textblock border-ruled in wide gold; readings in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Onlays (decorative components)
• Early works

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 184: Devotional book are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Devotional book].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece