Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632 [Browse]
• Hadith—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]

Summary note

An illuminated copy of Jazūlī's collection of prayers for the Prophet, including those associated with the pilgrimage to the Prophet's tomb in Medina.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from: fol. 2b.
• 12 lines per page. Written in elegant medium large naskh in black ink. Text written inside a ruled frame. The guidelines and three inner lines of the frame ruled in black, and the outer line of the frame in red ink. Use of red ink for rubrications. Ff. 1b and 2a, and 18b and 19a full-page illuminations in a "carpet-page" style: text within a smaller frame (105 x 55 mm) with gold leaf head and tail-pieces, with margins designed in gold leaf with blue, red and purple watercolors. Miniatures of the Kaʻbah in Mecca and the Prophet's tomb in Medina on fol. 16b and fol. 17a, gilt with red, blue and purple watercolors. Cream glazed paper with visible laid lines. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals starts on fol. 1.
• Manuscript additions: A couple of inscriptions in a later hand concerning a prayer (duʻāʾ) on fol. 1a.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا للايمان والاسلام ... وبعد هذا فالغرض في هذا الكتب ذكر الصلوة على النبى
• Explicit: ونسالك اللهم بنور وجهك الذي ملاء اركان عرشك ان تزرع في قلبي معرفتك حتى اعرفك حق معرفتك كما ينبغى ان تعرف به وصلى الله على سيدنا ونبينا ومولانا محمد خاتم النبيين وامام المرسلين وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليماۀ و الحمد لله رب العلمين وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل اللهم اغفر لمؤلفه وارحمه واجعله من المحشورين فى زمرة النبيين والصديقين يوم القيمة بفضلك يا رحمن

Binding note

Brown leather with a blind tooled border designed with roll, fillets and corner fleurons, and central blind stamped mandorla on upper and lower covers. New pastedowns in white paper. Some minor water damage and some repair to leaves, most notably fol. 1.

Language note

Arabic.

References

• Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 132
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 327 (4)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 359 (4)

Other format(s)

Microfilm available for reproduction.

OCLC

1340446176

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