Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 395

Metadata

DS ID:

DS29542

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 395

Title:

Muslim devotional miscellany

Date:

1773-1777

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 83 leaves : paper, ill. ; 144 x 96 (115 x 59) mm. bound to 144 x 104 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in naskhi script by different hands in black on white European laid paper. Catchwords. Text framed in gold. Sentences terminate in gold discs; headings set off in illuminated boxes. Well-executed polychrome and gilt illuminated ʻunwāns on fol. 1b-2a. Illuminated medallions on fol. 39a-48b. Illustrations on fol. 70b and 71a. Perforation of paper...
Origin: Texts 1-6 copied by al-Sayyid Khalīl ibn al-Sayyid Ismāʻīl Khwājah, 1187 AH (1773 or 4). Text 12 copied by Ṣāḥib Muṣṭafá Āghā, Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1191 (June 1777).
Previously owned by Luther R. Fowle.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Islamic countries

Eighteenth century

headpieces (layout features)

miniatures (paintings)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

Early works

Prayer--Islam

Islam

Prayers and devotions

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9959535463506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University