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

Title

Devotional book

Other related names

• Nayrīzī, Aḥmad, active 1716, scribe
  نيريزى، احمد،
• Ḥusaynī, Mahdī ibn Muṣṭafá, active 1882, former owner
  حسينى، مهدى بن مصطفى،

Call number

MS Or 443
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14635455
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1145170125
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_443.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14635455

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Chiefly Arabic with some Persian

Origin

Date

1716

Place

Iran?

Summary

Prayers and several chapters and verses from the Qurʼān all written on gold cloudbands.

Notes

• Owner's stamp with the name Mahdī ibn Muṣṭafá Ḥusaynī, and the year 1300 AH (1882 or 1883 CE) added in ink (f. 12v).
   

Extent

V, 12, x leaves : 209 x 133 (137 x 78) mm, bound to 215 x 137 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in leather over pasteboard; green painted front cover with central image of a kneeling man with a sword across his knees; inside cover painted bright red with gold painted frame with corner flourishes.

Layout

9 lines per page.

Decoration

Text between gold cloudbands; textblock border-ruled in gold, blue and red with the page-opening frame ruled in gold; rubrications in red and gold.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Prayers (literary works)
• Painted (decoration)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 443: 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

  To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 443: Devotional book. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Devotional book].

Decorations

• Front cover — Painting
• fol. 1v — Cloudbands (every page)
• fol. 12v — Stamp
• fol. 12v — Date in ink