Description of Columbia University MS Or 443: Devotional book Columbia University 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/. 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. Owner's stamp with the name Mahdī ibn Muṣṭafá Ḥusaynī, and the year 1300 AH (1882 or 1883 CE) added in ink (f. 12v). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 443 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 Prayers and several chapters and verses from the Qurʼān all written on gold cloudbands. Chiefly Arabic with some Persian Devotional book scribe Nayrīzī, Aḥmad, active 1716 نيريزى، احمد، former owner Ḥusaynī, Mahdī ibn Muṣṭafá, active 1882 حسينى، مهدى بن مصطفى، 1v [Devotional book].

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 v, 12, x leaves : 209 x 133 (137 x 78) mm, bound to 215 x 137 mm 9 lines per page. Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. 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. Painting Library bookplate Cloudbands (every page) Stamp Date in ink

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.

Copy completed by Aḥmad al-Nayrīzī in 1128 AH (1716 CE) (f. 12r).

1716 Iran? Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents) Prayers (literary works) Painted (decoration) Stamps (Provenance)