Description of Columbia University MS Or 268: Book of prayers and questions and answers Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 268: Book of prayers and questions and answers 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/. 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 268: Book of prayers and questions and answers. 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. Manuscript codex. New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 268 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 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. Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Book of prayers and questions and answers associated name Luṭfī ibn ʻAbd al-Muʻīn لطفي بن عبد المعين، former owner Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936 1v [Book of prayers and questions and answers]

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 [Turkey?] : 138 x 88 (93 x 52) mm, bound to 144 x 93 x 12 mm Text 1 written in 9 long lines; text 2 written in 17 long lines. Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Border-rules in gold and black; verses punctuated by gold roundels; some rubrications and overlining in red. Bookplate: "George. A Plimpton" Notations in ink Notations in ink

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

Item is not dated; probably late 18th or 19th century.

1775-18--? Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936. Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover). Islam--Customs and practices Islam--Prayers and devotions Islam--Miscellanea Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Manuscripts, Turkish--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents)