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

Title

Book of prayers and questions and answers

Other related names

• Luṭfī ibn ʻAbd al-Muʻīn, associated name
  لطفي بن عبد المعين،
• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner

Call number

MS Or 268
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15003394
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1199340906
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_268.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15003394

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

1775-18--?

Summary

Two works copied in two different hands bound together and intermixed. The first contains selections from the Qurʼān and prayers. Some prayers have Ottoman Turkish titles in red. A few leaves inserted upside down (f. 12-15, 18-19). The second text is a set of questions and answers in Ottoman Turkish on faith and religion associated with the name Luṭfī ibn ʻAbd al-Muʻīn (f. 54v). Some notes in Latin script throughout.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   

Extent

[Turkey?] : 138 x 88 (93 x 52) mm, bound to 144 x 93 x 12 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish leather with blind tooled frame rules; plain paper doublure.

Layout

Text 1 written in 9 long lines; text 2 written in 17 long lines.

Decoration

Border-rules in gold and black; verses punctuated by gold roundels; some rubrications and overlining in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   
• Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Customs and practices
• Islam--Prayers and devotions
• Islam--Miscellanea
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
• Manuscripts, Turkish--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Book of prayers and questions and answers]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "George. A Plimpton"
• fol. 1v — Notations in ink
• fol. 70r — Notations in ink