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Ḥilyas, prayers, and Qurʼanic passages (MS M.950).

Accession number
MS M.950
Object title
Ḥilyas, prayers, and Qurʼanic passages (MS M.950).
Display Date
1780.
Created
Constantinople, 1780.
Binding
Ottoman brown leather over thin paperboards, rebacked or possibly recycled; each side with recessed center medallion, pendants and corners bearing symmetrical cloud bands and floral rinceaux die-embossed into orange inlays, backgrounds painted gold. Borders tooled and painted gold. Former fore-edge flap, now missing. Doublures are 19th-c marbled paper, not original.
Credit line
Gift of Dr. Karl Vogel, 1964.
Description
146 leaves (9-11 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 141 x 100 mm
Provenance
Dr. Karl Vogel.
Notes
Ms. miscellany; written and illuminated, probably in Constantinople, and completed 1194 (i.e., 1780).
Decoration: 20 miniatures, paintings of relics, seals and calligraphic renderings of the names of Muḥammad and his followers.
Scribe: Ibrāhim, known as Berberzāde, and by ʻOs̤mān; colophons (fol. 105v; fol. 136v) signed, and the later dated.
Text box: 83 x 50 mm.
Alternate title from the Seventeenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Contents
fols. 1v-58r: Prayers composed of Qur'anic passages -- fols. 58v-90r: Seals, calligraphic renderings of the names Muḥammad and his followers, paintings of relics and descriptions of the prophets -- fols. 90v-105v: Prayers composed of Qur'anic passages -- fols. 106r-137r: Melange of seals, squares with the names of God, Qur'anic prayers and illustrations -- fols. 137v-147r: Miscellaneous notes and Qur'anic passages.
Script
cursive
Language
Arabic
Century
Classification