Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Former owner

• Ghazlāwī, Muḥammad, active 1842 [Browse]
• غزلاوي، محمد،, active 1842 [Browse]

Donor

• Spitzer, Doreen Canaday, 1914- [Browse]

Summary note

Devotional book containing selections from the Qurʼān, other short prayers and illuminated panels and calligraphic drawings. Several pages of prayers in a different hand at the end with the last page inverted (f. 71v-76v). Some titles in Ottoman Turkish.

Notes

• A waqf statement indicates that Muḥammad al-Ghazlāwī donated this book in 1258 A.H. (1842 or 1843) (f. 1r)
• Binding: Bound in red leather over pasteboard (Type III); gilt stamped paper onlay central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis with gold tooled frame on front cover; back cover has blind-stamped central mandorla.
• Decoration: Illuminated polychrome and gold headpiece on first page (f. 1v); textblock is border-ruled in gold and red; gold roundels mark verse endings; gold bars divide sections of the Qurʼān; rubrications in red, including readings and titles; 5 full-page illuminated panels with descriptions of the Prophet and Ḥadīth (f. 58r-60r)
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords each verso, lower left.
• Layout: Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy completed on 7 Ramadan 1191 A.H. (October 1777) by Muṣṭafá, a student of ʻAbd Allāh (f. 70v)
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic with some titles in Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

Formerly owned by Muḥammad al-Ghazlāwī (waqf note f. 1r).

Source acquisition

Presumed to be a gift of Doreen Canaday Spitzer.

Cite as

Bryn Mawr College Libraries BV 48

Other title(s)

Qurʼan. Selections

OCLC

1135058527

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