Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 178

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6552

Shelfmark:

MS Or 178

Title:

Devotional book

Scribe:

Būsnawī, Ḥusayn / بوسنوي، حسين

Ḥusayn Būsnawī WIKIDATA

Place:

Turkey or the Balkans?

Turkey TGN

Date:

1757-58.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 86 leaves : non-European laid paper, illuminations ; 198 x 130 (132 x 72) mm, bound to 198 x 136 x 16 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: 11 long lines or tables with 3 columns and 5 rows of names; folios with the most extensive marginalia are blind ruled for marginalia.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Decoration: Textblock is border-ruled in gold, red, black and pink. Gold and polychrome headpiece with text on abbreviated cloudbands (f. 1v). Numerous polychrome illuminated section headings, tailpieces, and marginal markers. Gilt roundels and occasional floral sprays punctuate the text. Bright, polychrome floral composition finispiece below the colophon, which is written on cloudbands (f. 71v).
Shelfmark: MS Or 178.
Origin: Copy completed in 1171 AH. by Ḥusayn al-Būsnawī, a student of al-Sayyid Sulaymān, known as Khaṭīb Muḥammad Pāshā (f. 71v).

Keyword:

Devotional literature

Prayers and devotions

illuminations (paintings)

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

prayers (literary works)

Islam

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Devotional literature

Manuscripts, Arabic

Islam--Prayers and devotions

Prayer--Islam

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14230569

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14230569_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library