Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 173

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6551

Shelfmark:

MS Or 173

Title:

Ziyārat-i ʻĀshūrāʼ

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

17--? - 18--?].

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic and Persian

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 7, 78, 15, 9 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 180 x 112 (118 x 52) mm, bound to 183 x 115 x 14 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from headpiece (f. 1v).
Layout: 11 and 7 lines per page, border-ruled.
Script: Naskh for the Arabic and nastaʻlīq for some Persian; black ink, pointed with Arabic vocalized.
Decoration: Gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece (f. 1v). Border-rules in red, gold, blue; page-frame ruled in black; lines ruled in gold. Rubrications in red and blue.
Origin: Item not dated, likely copied in the mid-18th to mid-19th century.
Shelfmark: MS Or 173.
Customs stamp dated 1312/1894-95 (f. 1r, 85v) and an undated customs stamp (f. 85v). Owner's stamp (f. 1r).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Lacquered bindings

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

Stamps

Tombs

Tenth of Muḥarram

Iraq

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages

Manuscripts, Arabic

Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, -680

Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, -680--Tomb--Early works to 1800

Prayer--Islam

Shiite shrines

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14230567

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14230567_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library