Majmūʻat adʻiyah wa-aḥzāb

Title:

Majmūʻat adʻiyah wa-aḥzāb
مجموعة أدعية واحزاب

Date:

[1790-1819?].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 161Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests very late 18th or early 19th century. Scrap paginated pp.159-160 appears to be dated "٢١ تموز ٩٨".Accompanying materials: Scrap with notes and figures (paginated pp.159-160) and scrap bearing list of names (paginated pp.195-196).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 75. Prayers & dicta." ; "٢۷٤" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered black leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in green surface-tinted wove paper ; sewn in black thread, two stations ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, moisture damage, negative draw in covers and flap, some spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.Support: European wove paper (mainly), quite smooth and burnished ; a few of the opening quires in European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks including eagle, crown, name, etc.Decoration: Titles, section headings, keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; right-sloping head serif appears occasionally on lām of definite article, etc. ; very slight effect of tilt to the left ; curvilinear descenders ; sweeping tail on final nūn ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written mainly in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, I (2), 9 V(92), IV (100), i ; chiefly quinions ; occasional leaves between works left blank (see pp.5-6, pp.25-27, pp.67, pp.162-169, pp.198-200) ; catchwords present ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts ; skips two pages each between pp.175-176 and pp.199-200).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of a collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of prayers, with detailed contents listing at opening (pp.3-4) corresponding to pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals.

Language:

Arabic
Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Turkish
Manuscripts, Arabic
Religious life Islam Quotations, maxims, etc. Early works to 1800.
Islam Prayers and devotions Early works to 1800.

Extent:

100 leaves : paper ; 181 x 127 (119 x 69) mm. bound to 181 x 132 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006776125

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