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

Title

İlmihâl
[علم حال]

Other related names

• Hull, Helen R. 1888-1971, former owner
• Hull, Helen R. 1888-1971, donor

Call number

MS Or 451
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14635470
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1145170779
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_451.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14635470

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

17--?-18--?

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Text listing and explaining basic Muslim beliefs and describing ritual practices. Includes information on the ritual prayers, the names of the Sunnī schools of thought, some selections from the Qurʼān, and other topics of general Islamic education.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Ii, 74, ii leaves : 164 x 104 (115 x 70) mm, bound to 163 x 105 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Reddish brown leather with stamped central mandorla.

Layout

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

Decoration

Polychrome and gold headpiece (f. 1v); textblock border-ruled in gold and black; overlines and rubricatons in red; gold roundels punctuate text.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Helen R. Hull, 1968 (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Customs and practices
• Islam--Doctrines
• Manuscripts, Turkish--New York (State)--New York

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [İlmihâl].

Decorations

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