Description of Columbia University MS Or 477: Collection of Sufi writings and prayers

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Collection of texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. After the first work, a large portion of the manuscript is prayers attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Shādhilī with other, additional prayers and religious poetry. Main texts are copied in at least two hands with notes in additional hands.

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Collection of Sufi writings and prayers Jafāʼī, Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan Khalwatī, active 1481 جفائى، حسين بن حسن خلوتى، Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximately 1196-1258 شاذلي، ابو الحسن علي بن عبد الله، Kūrānī, Aḥmad ibn Ismāʻīl, 1410 or 1411-1487 or 1488 كوراني، احمد بن اسماعيل، Abū al-Saʻūd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1492 or 1493-1574 or 1575 ابو السعود محمد بن محمد، Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274 صدر الدين القونوي، محمد بن اسحاق، Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 ابن العربي، ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166 عبد القادر الجيلاني، associated name Muḥammad Amīn Yūsuf, active 1875 محمد امين يوسف، donor Delacorte, Valerie, 1914-2011 former owner Delacorte, George T. 1893-1991 1v [Collection of Sufi writings and prayers] 1v Manāzil quṭb al-ʻārifīn wa manāzil aṣḥāb al-sālikīn 112v Risālah 123v [Prayer] 135v Wird / Sayyid Yaḥyá 140v Wird / Mūllá al-Kūrānī 142r Duʻāʹnāmah / Abū al-Saʻūd Afandī 143v [Prayers] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻArabī al-Khātimī al-Ṭāʼī al-Andalusī 162v Duʻāʼ sharif / Ṣadr al-Dīn Qanawī 166v Khawāṣṣ Ayat al-Kursī 167v Manājāt / Muḥyī al-Dīn al-ʻArabī 169v Ḥizb / Muḥyī al-Dīn al-ʻArabī 171v Duʻāʼ al-Fātiḥah maʻ al-basmalah / al-Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn 173v Ṣalāt ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī

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175 leaves : 161 x 116 (110 x 69) mm, bound to 160 x 116 mm 11 long lines. Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized. Illuminated headpiece in gold, pink, yellow with blue and red foliate finials (f. 1v); textblock is border-ruled in two styles: gold, black, red (f. 1v-143r, 162v-164v), single red (f. 143v-161v); gold roundels with orange and blue dots punctuate the text; other simple headpieces in gold lined with black (f. 55v, 76v, 77v, 82v, 112v, 123v, 135v); diagram in black and red (f. 30v), table in black (f. 121v); rubrications in red, some headers set into gold bands (for example, f. 30r). Illuminated headpiece Diagram Illuminated headpiece Illuminated headpiece Illuminated headpiece Table Illuminated headpiece Notations Stamp Notations Notations Notations Illuminated headpiece Table Illuminated headpiece Illuminated headpiece Table Tables Notations Tables Notations

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap; large, central medallion with painted foliate fill and a frame; gilded, inset medallion on flap with frame; bright blue paper pastedowns and endleaves; spine is reinforced with brown leather.

A transmission note is dated 1212 AH (1797 CE) (f. 71r).

1797 Turkey? Gift of Valerie Delacorte in Memory of George T. Delacorte, 2007. Manuscripts, Arabic Manuscripts, Turkish Sufism--Early works to 1800 Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800 Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents) Envelope flaps (features) Painted (decoration) Full covers Islamic bindings (Binding)