Prayer Book

Name: Prayer Book
Author: 'Abd al-Qadir HisariTurkey

Title	Prayer Book
Author	'Abd al-Qadir HisariTurkey
Publication Date:	AH 1180 / AD 1766
Publication Place	Turkey -
Subject	Ottoman — Manuscript: ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper Binding: leather and gold
Type	kitap
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	Height: 15.2 cm, width: 10.2 cm
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	2014.44
Record ID	GalEx6_us_Mus82_12
Library Location	The Metropolitan Museum
Date	AH 1180 / AD 1766
Notes	This small prayer book, or du'anama, belongs to a corpus of illustrated devotional texts produced in the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unlike most prayer books created at the time, this one contains twenty-nine drawings of traditional Islamic themes and subjects, which are outlined in gold and filled with prayers in ghubarnaskh, an especially fine or "dust-like" variety of thenaskhscript. These include representations of the Ka'ba, the footprints (kadem) of the Prophet Muhammad, the Seal of Solomon, the bifurcated sword of 'Ali (zu'l fiqar), Noah's Ark, the lamp of the Prophet, the trumpet of the Archangel Israfil, and the cave from the story of the Seven Sleepers in the Qur'an, among others. The manuscript is signed and dated by the calligrapher, a prominent mid-eighteenth-century master known for his calligrams and pictorial calligraphic compositions, such as the galleon with inscriptions referring to the story of the Seven Sleepers also in the Metropolitan's collection (2003.241). It also contains collectors' stamps dating to the first half of the nineteenth century. The leather binding is decorated with stamped and gilded medallions within a simple border. Prayer manuals enjoyed wide popularity in the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of political reform and religious revivalism. Used for individual prayer, they also served as mediational devices to protect, comfort, and heal their owners.
Sample Text	Gift from The Friends of Islamic Art Gifts in 2014
Bu sayfanın künyesi	MWNF Working Number: GalEx6_US2_12
Seçili bibliyografya	James Cummins Bookseller.Catalogue 120, Fall Arrivals.New York, no. 43, (2013)Ekhtiar, M.,How to Read Islamic Calligraphy., New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018."Including Fine Rugs and Carpets, London, 1 May, 2019." InArt of the Islamic World., London: Sotheby's, no. 43, (2019)

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Prayer Book

Author 'Abd al-Qadir HisariTurkey

Publication Date AH 1180 / AD 1766

Publication Place Turkey -

Subject Ottoman — Manuscript: ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper Binding: leather and gold

Type kitap

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions Height: 15.2 cm, width: 10.2 cm

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 2014.44

Record ID GalEx6_us_Mus82_12

Library Location The Metropolitan Museum

Date AH 1180 / AD 1766

Notes This small prayer book, or du'anama, belongs to a corpus of illustrated devotional texts produced in the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unlike most prayer books created at the time, this one contains twenty-nine drawings of traditional Islamic themes and subjects, which are outlined in gold and filled with prayers in ghubarnaskh, an especially fine or "dust-like" variety of thenaskhscript. These include representations of the Ka'ba, the footprints (kadem) of the Prophet Muhammad, the Seal of Solomon, the bifurcated sword of 'Ali (zu'l fiqar), Noah's Ark, the lamp of the Prophet, the trumpet of the Archangel Israfil, and the cave from the story of the Seven Sleepers in the Qur'an, among others. The manuscript is signed and dated by the calligrapher, a prominent mid-eighteenth-century master known for his calligrams and pictorial calligraphic compositions, such as the galleon with inscriptions referring to the story of the Seven Sleepers also in the Metropolitan's collection (2003.241). It also contains collectors' stamps dating to the first half of the nineteenth century. The leather binding is decorated with stamped and gilded medallions within a simple border. Prayer manuals enjoyed wide popularity in the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of political reform and religious revivalism. Used for individual prayer, they also served as mediational devices to protect, comfort, and heal their owners.

Sample Text Gift from The Friends of Islamic Art Gifts in 2014

Bu sayfanın künyesi MWNF Working Number: GalEx6_US2_12

Seçili bibliyografya James Cummins Bookseller.Catalogue 120, Fall Arrivals.New York, no. 43, (2013)Ekhtiar, M.,How to Read Islamic Calligraphy., New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018."Including Fine Rugs and Carpets, London, 1 May, 2019." InArt of the Islamic World., London: Sotheby's, no. 43, (2019)