Franklin

[Collection of prayers and charms].

Publication:
[between 1750 and 1850?]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
150 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 173 x 116 (120 x 70) mm bound to 173 x 124 mm
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Islam -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Islamic magic -- Early works to 1800.
Islamic magic.
Islam -- Prayers and devotions.
Form/Genre:
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 18th century.
Manuscripts, Digital.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Prayers.
Devotional literature.
Language:
Arabic.
Summary:
Collection of prayers, including several based on the Āyat al-Kursī, and several others for each day of the week.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 150; 1-15¹⁰. Catchwords on each page, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed .
Decoration: Simple gilt headpieces, some with titles entered in red and others empty; textblock border-ruled in red; red dots with tails punctuate the text.
Binding: Red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); flap does not fit the fore-edge of the textblock, possibly a re-purposed cover; blind stamped circular flowers in center, on corners and in the middle of each edge; blind-tooled frame.
Origin: The item is undated, probably late 18th or early 19th century.
Watermark: Walking lion.
Local notes:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
Penn Provenance:
Sold by bookseller Thomas Thorpe to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 2370 (spine label, stamp on f. 1r).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's in a sale of Phillipps manuscripts, 25 Nov. 1968, lot 242.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Cited as:
UPenn LJS 40.
Contributor:
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
OCLC:
808635847