Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 477

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6661

Shelfmark:

MS Or 477

Title:

Collection of Sufi writings and prayers

Place:

Turkey?

Turkey TGN

Date:

1797

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 175 leaves : paper ; 161 x 116 (110 x 69) mm, bound to 160 x 116 mm

Former Owner(s):

Delacorte, George T. 1893-1991

George T. Delacorte Jr. WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Layout: 11 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, pink, yellow with blue and red foliate finials (f. 1v); textblock is border-ruled in two styles: gold, black, red (f. 1v-143r, 162v-164v), single red (f. 143v-161v); gold roundels with orange and blue dots punctuate the text; other simple headpieces in gold lined with black (f. 55v, 76v, 77v, 82v, 112v, 123v, 135v); diagram in black and red (f. 30v...
Origin: A transmission note is dated 1212 AH (1797 CE) (f. 71r).
Stamp with the name ʻUthmān (stamps, f. 147v).
Shelfmark: MS Or 477.
Note signed Muḥammad Amīn Yūsuf of a Shādhilī Dergāh and dated Ramaḍān 1292 (1875 CE) laid in.

Keyword:

full covers

Islamic bindings

painted (decoration)

Prayers and devotions

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

envelope flaps (features)

Islam

Manuscripts, Arabic

Islam--Prayers and devotions

Manuscripts, Turkish

Sufism

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14678094

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14678094_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library