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.
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
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