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

Title

Hādhā ḥijāb ʻaẓīm al-shaʼn wa-al-burhān.
هذا حجاب عظيم الشأن والبرهان

Other related names

• Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225, attributed name
  بوني، احمد بن علي،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 389
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14012762
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107323832
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_389.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14012762

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

18--?

Summary

Copy of a small devotional book with prayers and incantations for luck and health. In another copy, the text is attributed to Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   

Extent

42 leaves : 110 x 80 (80 x 55) mm, bound to 114 x 92 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with flap; blind-stamped, long central cartouche and cornerpieces that meet along the long edges, with paper onlays; remnants of blue paper doublure with gilt stamped pattern of flowers and stems inside crossing diagonal lines.

Layout

8 or 9 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in double red; overlining in red.

Script

Written in informal naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Hādhā ḥijāb ʻaẓīm al-shaʼn wa-al-burhān.

Decorations

• fol. 10r — Table
• fol. 15v — Diagrams
• fol. 18v — Table
• fol. 23r — Table
• fol. 27v — Table
• fol. 28r — Table
• fol. 29v — Table
• fol. 30v — Table
• fol. 31v — Table
• fol. 32r — Table
• fol. 32v — Table
• fol. 33r — Table
• fol. 33v — Table
• fol. 34r — Table
• fol. 34v — Table
• fol. 35r — Table
• fol. 35v — Table
• fol. 36r — Table
• fol. 36v — Table
• fol. 37v — Table
• fol. 38v — Table