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[Devotional book].
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 132
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Arabic
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- prayers (compositions)
- drawings (visual works)
- Manuscripts, 19th century.
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- 146 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 220 x 175 (155 x 125) mm bound to 235 x 185 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [between 1800 and 1899?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Loose leaf codex of prayers; copied in two hands.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Paper, 146; [1-146], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
- Script: Written in West African maghribī script in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
- Decoration: Geometric designs in red and brown on first and last pages (f. 1r, 146r); several other geometric designs throughout the text (f. 1v, 6r, 8r, 25v, 29r, 45r, 54v, 63v, 67v, 77v, 81r, 107r, 118r); rubrications in red.
- Binding: Unbound leaves between two boards with a leather strap attached to one board to wrap up the bundle.
- Item is undated, but likely produced in the 19th century.
- Catalog entry, 313, pasted to outside back cover.
- Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
- OCLC:
- 954274739
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