Description of Columbia University. MS Or 421: Devotional book Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 421: 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/. 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 421: 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. Manuscript codex. Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap; gilt stamped diaper grid pattern and gold frame; flap gilt stamped with vines; pink paper pastedowns; matching red leather case with tie, stamped in the same grid pattern as the codex on the front and a smaller, simplified diaper grid pattern on the back. New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 421 14258959 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112158872 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_421.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14258959 Devotional book containing numerous selections from the Qurʼān as well as prayers and talismans. Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Devotional book former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v [Devotional book]

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 98 leaves : 130 x 85 (75 x 45) mm, bound to 130 x 89 mm Chiefly 7 long lines, with some tables and tabular layouts. Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Illuminated headpieces in gold, yellow, blue, red and green with the text on cloudbands and a wide gold border rule (f. 1v, 69v); facing page also written on cloudbands with a wide gold border rule (f. 1r, 70r); gold roundels punctuate text; textblock border-ruled in gold; some in-text gold accents (for example f. 5v); gold text dividers; two simple gold finispieces (f. 66v-67r); some rubrications in faded red. Illuminated headpiece Cloudbands Illuminated header Cloudbands Example of gold accent Illuminated finispiece Illuminated finispiece Tabular layout Tabular layout Tabular layout Tabular layout Illuminated headpiece Talisman Table Table Talisman Table Tables

Item is undated; probably produced in the 18th century.

17--? Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Manuscripts, Turkish--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents) Illuminations (painting) Flap bindings (Binding)