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

Title

Other related names

• Abī Yasʻad ibn Aḥmad, associated name
  ابي يسعد بن احمد،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14442609
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135066934
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_516.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14442609

Publisher

Origin

Date

between 1875-1906?

Place

Tangier

Summary

A trapezoid shaped writing tablet used for studying the Qurʼān; no handle; hole drilled through the upper center. The recto is mostly flat with water and scratch marks. A few words of Arabic including the name Abī Yasʻad ibn Aḥmad and a faint English description of the item are visible. The back of the tablet is rounded with a geometric drawing.

Notes

• Wooden tablet.
   
• "Tablet used in the schools of Tangier, Tangier, June 1906" The name "Buachend bin Hʼameda" is also on the note (note in ink with the item).
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Support

Layout

Decoration

Geometric drawing on verso.

Script

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Writing materials and instruments
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Qur'anic boards
• Writing tablets (information artifacts)

Licenses

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