Copy of al-Jazūlī's famous prayer book. This copy includes extensive additions in the margins as well as some blank pages at the end which have been partially filled with other prayers.
Notes
Decoration: Rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in red; red dots punctuate the text. Two full page illustrations in gold, red, and green of the the Rawḍah in Medina (f. 20v-21r).
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Layout: 13 long lines with extensive marginalia.
Manuscript codex.
Origin: Likely copied in the second half of the 19th century, possibly in North Africa since the illustrations of the Rawḍa and the Minbar in Medina follow the pattern of illustration used there.
Script: Naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
Shelfmark: MS Or 117.
Title from introduction to text (f. 8r).
Location of originals
Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Source of description
Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
Binding note
Green and black marbled paper over pasteboard.
Language note
Arabic.
Source acquisition
Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
OCLC
1076493942
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