Publication Date
[1790-1819?]
Subject
Manuscripts, Turkish, Manuscripts, Turkish /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Turkish / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Religious life, Religious life /
Islam, Religious life / Islam /
Quotations, maxims, etc., Religious life / Islam / Quotations, maxims, etc. /
Early works to 1800., Islam, Islam /
Prayers and devotions, Islam / Prayers and devotions /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
ara,ota
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
100
Physical Dimensions
100 leaves : paper ; 181 x 127 (119 x 69) mm. bound to 181 x 132 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006776125
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Fine copy of a collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of prayers, with detailed contents listing at opening (pp.3-4) corresponding to pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 161
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests very late 18th or early 19th century. Scrap paginated pp.159-160 appears to be dated "٢١ تموز ٩٨".
Accompanying materials: Scrap with notes and figures (paginated pp.159-160) and scrap bearing list of names (paginated pp.195-196).
Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 75. Prayers & dicta." ; "٢۷٤" on tail of textblock.
Binding: Pasteboards covered black leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in green surface-tinted wove paper ; sewn in black thread, two stations ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, moisture damage, negative draw in covers and flap, some spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.
Support: European wove paper (mainly), quite smooth and burnished ; a few of the opening quires in European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks including eagle, crown, name, etc.
Decoration: Titles, section headings, keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated.
Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; right-sloping head serif appears occasionally on lām of definite article, etc. ; very slight effect of tilt to the left ; curvilinear descenders ; sweeping tail on final nūn ; fully vocalized.
Layout: Written mainly in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: i, I (2), 9 V(92), IV (100), i ; chiefly quinions ; occasional leaves between works left blank (see pp.5-6, pp.25-27, pp.67, pp.162-169, pp.198-200) ; catchwords present ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts ; skips two pages each between pp.175-176 and pp.199-200).
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 75. Prayers & dicta." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "495" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1) ; circular waqf-seal impression in black ink appears at opening prayer (p.7) and several places throughout, reads: "هذا وقف الراجي فيض الصمدي الشيخ احمد ضيا الدين ابن مصطفى الخالدي فمن بدله بعد ما سمعه فانما اثمه على الذين يبدلونه" in name of Aḥmad Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn ibn Muṣṭafá al-Khālidī (i.e. Ahmed Ziyâüddîn Gümüşhanevî, d. 1893 or 4) ; marginal corrections and glosses.
