Collection ID: 0033 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Miʻrājīyah.
معراجيه

Authors

• Turkish Manuscripts Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)

Other related names

• Sunbulī, Muḥammad Darvīsh Nūr al-Dīn, active 1862, former owner
  سنبلى، محمد درويش نور الدين،
• Aḥmad ibn Kamāl, active 1792, associated name
  احمد بن كمال،
• Aḥmad al-Mudarris, former owner
  احمد المدرس،

Call number

UTS Ms. Tur. 1
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15381864
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1241981151
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0033/html/uts_ms_001_turkic.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15381864

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Ottoman Turkish and Persian with some Arabic quotations and headings

Origin

Date

17--? - 1792

Summary

A versified work about the Prophet's night journey (isrāʼ) and ascension (miʻrāj).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from flyleaf inscription (f. 1r).
   
• Inscription in ink signed Aḥmad ibn Kamāl and dated 1207 A.H. (1792 or 1793 CE) (second front flyleaf recto).
   

Extent

Ii, 44, ii foliated leaves : 186 x 121 (131 x 76) mm, bound to 187 x 128 x 17 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Green cardboard with flap (type II); plain paper doublure.

Layout

15 lines per page in two columns.

Decoration

Simple gold-colored headpiece (f. 1v); rubrications in red; borders and columns ruled in gold.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by al-Ḥājj Aḥmad al-Mudarris (note in ink, f. 1r)
   
• Formerly owned by al-Sayyid Muḥammad Darvīsh Nūr al-Dīn Sunbulī and given as a waqf (pious donation) dated 1279 A.H. (1862 CE) (waqf notice f. 1r, stamps f. 1r-2r).
   

Subjects topical

• Muḥammad,--Prophet,---632--Isrāʼ and Miʻrāj
• Manuscripts, Turkish--New York (State)--New York
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Miʻrājīyah.
• fol. 44v — Hikayat

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner's note
• fol. 1r — Waqf note
• fol. 1r — Stamp
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Stamp
• fol. 2r — Stamp