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Subject(s)

• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Forms (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Commonplace books—Islamic countries—18th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1723 or 4].

Summary note

Collection of prayers, instructions for prayers, selections from the Qurʾān, and other miscellaneous texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• On front cover: Label reading "131" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: Generally 11 lines per page; Arabic in naskh and Persian in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European and paper. Rubrication and catchwords; text occasionally written on the diagonal and covering most of page surface. Damp staining around margins; some leaves are detached. Fol. 53 has been torn out, leaving only the upper corner. Inserts between fol. 66-67, 86-87, 92-93.
• Origin: Text 5 is dated 1136 H [1723 or 4] (fol. 43).

Binding note

Limp brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.

Language note

Arabic and Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-1b: [Medical formula in Persian and Arabic prayer for recovery].
• 2. fol. 2a-7a: [Prayers in Arabic].
• 3. fol. 7b-12a: [Sūrat al-Fātiḥah; Sūrat Yāsīn; Sūrat al-Jumʻah].
• 4. fol. 9a-18a (margins): [Phrases to be said during ṣalāh, with Persian explanation].
• 5. fol. 12a-43a: Hādhā [sic] Jawāhir al-Qurʾān. A selection of āyahs from the Qurʾān.
• 6. fol. 18b-19b (margins): [Arabic prayers with Persian explanation].
• 7. fol. 43a-57b: Niyyat-i tawbah va bāz gasht az maʻāṣī khayr guyad.
• 8. fol. 57b-62a: Dar bayān-i kayfīyat-i namāz-i ʻĪd-i Ramaz̤ān va Qurbān.
• 9. fol. 62a-86b: Iqraʾ hādhihi al-fātiḥah baʻd al-ṣalāh wa itmām al-khuṭbah.
• 10. fol. 86b-87b: [Arabic prayer with Persian explanation].
• 11. fol. 88a-93b: [Marriage formulas, poetry quotations, hadiths, and other short texts].
• 12. fol. 94a-101b: Dar bayān-i taʻqīb-i har namāz.
• 13. fol. 102a-109b: [Prayers].

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Other title(s)

• Qurʼan. Selections
• قرآن.

OCLC

778788159

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