Accession number:
MS M.950
Title:
Ḥilyas, prayers, and Qurʾanic passages
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:
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.
Variant Title:
Passages from the Koran, descriptions of Mecca and Medina, and miscellaneous prayers
Yā sin. waʾl-qurʾānil-ḥakīm (Incipit, Arabic; associated with: fol. 1v)
Script:
cursive
Language:
Arabic
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