Details

Subjects:

Islam -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Islam -- Prayers and devotions.

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Prayers.
Annotations.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, Turkish.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Devotional literature.

Language:

Arabic, with commentary in Ottoman Turkish.

Summary:

Collection of prayers in Arabic, each preceded by a commentary in Ottoman Turkish, with a diagram (f. 217v) and information at the end for calculating the direction of Mecca from different latitudes. Sections of copious marginal notes at the end of the manuscript (f. 185r-186r, 192r-201v, 208r-209v, 216v-220r). Later notes and pen trials in naskh script on front flyleaf.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i + 221; 1⁶ 2¹² 3⁸ 4¹² 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹²(-2) 9⁸ 10⁷ 11-12⁶ 13-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17-19¹⁰ 20¹² 21⁸ 22² 23⁸ 24² 25⁸ 26¹⁰; 1-108, [i], 109-220, later European foliation in ink, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 11 long lines, border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Black or red woodcut fillet border on each page; rubrications in red or green ink; some leaves stained yellow or red.
Binding: Dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gilt stamped central medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis on covers, coordinating stamp on flap; reddish leather doublure; labels on spine; description of manuscript in German on note pasted to inside upper cover.
Origin: Copy completed in Ṣafar A.H. 889 (March 1484; colophon, f. 220r).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Johann Michael Schiller, 1655 (inscription inside lower cover; another 17th-century inscription on the inside lower cover is not legible).
Formerly owned by Leander van Ess; sold as part of his collection in 1823 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 757 (spine label, stamp and number in ink on f. 1 recto).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 26 Nov. 1968, lot 245, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 38.

Contributor:

Ilyās ibn Khamzah ʻAlī Niyat ʻAlī ibn Khamzah, active 1484, scribe.
Schiller, Johann Michael, 17th century, former owner.
Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
الياس بن خمزه علي نيت علي بن خمزه, d scribe.

OCLC:

808630063

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page