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Title:
A collection of prayers
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
26 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Or 15956

A collection of prayers

Contents

1 copy of Majmū‘ah-’i az̲kār

Title: Majmū‘ah-’i az̲kār
Title: مجموعۀ اذکار

An illuminated book of invocations and supplicatory prayers. The ornamentation and script are unmistakably Chinese. Some of the formulae are of the kind customarily used after the five ritual prayers. Also included, on f. 16v-20r, is an invocation of 103 Divine Names that include, unusually, al-Ṣādiq. Title supplied.

There is no textual evidence of a connection to any particular region or religious school of Islam, but only to an ethnic group – probably Iranian, but conceivably Turkic.

The texts are in Arabic, but many are preceded by rubricated phrases in Persian indicating the number of times that the formula should be repeated (sih bar, sī bar, sī va sih bar, etc.). Also in Persian are an explanatory note in the margin of f. 16r, and the additional text on f. 24r-26v.

Other contents: 24r-26v, Durūd-i mustaghās īnast: a tract extolling the merits of a form of prayers of blessing on the Prophet; in this manuscript it breaks off at the point where the text of the prayer should appear. A few folios of the main text include inserted words and phrases in Arabic.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
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Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Brownish buff paper.
Extent: 26 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 137 × 92 mm.
Dimensions (written): 91 × 55 mm.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 54

54 lines (3 on 1v-2r).

Hand(s)

Ṣīnī script, partially vocalised.

Decoration

Rubrics and overlinings in red. Text dividers: three red dots configured as a triangle. Red text frames. Double illuminated opening in polychrome and gold with ornamentation including leaf motifs, floral motifs enclosed in an undulating scroll, and a Chinese zigzag pattern.

Additions:

Binding

Modern dark maroon leather binding with blind impressed frame design based on a repeated shell pattern.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th centuries CE ; China, or perhaps Eastern Turkistan (; Xinjiang or ; Gansu).

Provenance and Acquisition

2003-05-01

Acquired from Bonham's sale, lot 62; 1 May 2003

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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