[Majmūʻat awrād wa-adaʻiyah,
1129, i.e. 1716 or 1717].
[مجموعة اوراد وادعية, 1129ه، 1716 أو 1717م].
Description
- Language(s)
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Arabic ; Turkish, Ottoman
- Published
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[1716 or 1717]
- Summary
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Fine copy of a collective prayerbook (in the manner of a majmūʻah) containing selections from the Qurʼān (namely Sūrat Yāsīn and Sūrat al-Fatḥ) and assorted prayers, including the well known litany ascribed to Bahaüddin Nakşibend (d.1389), a prayer against plague and other diseases, etc. On added leaves at opening, Daʻwat al-Juljulūtīyah, attributed to al-Būnī.
- Note
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 160
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.156, transcription of litany completed in the year 1129 [1716 or 17].
Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 89. Portions of Kuran and prayers."
Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in European laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (compare Déroche class. OAi), pendants and cornerpieces ; sewn in grey thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light-blue and cream, fair condition ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, some lifting of leather, delamination of boards, staining, negative draw in upper cover, etc.
Support: European laid paper of at least three types ; mainly with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 19 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark with crown above bar carrying initials, well-burnished, thin and transluscent though sturdy ; another type appears in opening and latter quires with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), three crescent watermark, quite thick and sturdy ; final quire in a thin, very well-burnished (glossy) paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain line spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark consisting of three circles topped by crown with crescent above six-pointed star in the top circle and 'C' and the bottom circle.
Decoration: Headings and abbreviation sybmols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.
Script: Naskh ; mainly an Elegant Turkish hand, virtually serifless with mainly open counters and very slight effect of tilt to the left, fully vocalized.
Layout: Written mainly in 9 and 7 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: III (6), II (10), V (20), IV (28), 4 V(68), IV (76), V (86), VIII (102) ; final quire left blank ; middle of the quire marks in the form of red circles (resembling hāʼ or numeral khamsah ٥) appear in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips from p.55 to p.60).
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 89. Portions of Kuran and prayers." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "145" in Western numerals on first of opening leaves (p.1) ; seal of Solomon inscription (with greatest name of God / al-Ism al-Aʻẓam) on p.12 ; on paper (blue-tinted) pasted on 'title page' (p.23), a detailed waqf statement in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh Adīb (Abdullah Edip), known as Jannatʹzādah (Cennet-zade), qāḍī of Erzurum, accompanied by his seal, reads: "وقفت وقفا صحيحا شرعيا على ان لا يخرج من بيت الكتب الملتصق بداري الا لعلماء سكنوا بارضروم بكفيل مرعى اورهن قوي وانا الفقير السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; rare marginal correction and occasional glosses in al-Awrād al-Bahāʼīyah.
- Physical Description
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102 leaves :
paper ;
212 x 160 (159 x 111) mm. bound to 212 x 165 mm
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