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Rātib al-mahdī.
راتب المهدي.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 39
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Nashāwī, Ḥasan Sayyid Aḥmad, active 1885.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Islam--Prayers and devotions.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- manuscripts (documents)
- Prayers.
- Devotional literature.
- Physical Description:
- 35 leaves: paper ; 212 x 155 (170 x 80) mm bound to 215 x 165 mm
- Production:
- A.H. 1302 (1885)
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Collection of prayers and excerpts from the Qurʼān; leaves and quires are loose.
- Notes:
- Title from caption title (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: 15 long lines.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Rubrications in purple.
- Binding: Modern cardboard with mottled paper sides and flap (Type II); red leather spine and fore-edge hinge; plain paper doublure with red fabric spine and fore-edge hinge lining. The binding is loose from the textblock and appears never to have been bound to it.
- Origin: Copy completed on 17 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1302 A.H. (7 September 1885) (f. 35v).
- Watermarks: Abū Shubbāk (crescent face in a shield) with signature in Latin cursive script.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 39
- OCLC:
- 122383140
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