[Devotional book] [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Commercial Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.), former owner.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Prayers and devotions.

Islam--Prayers and devotions.

Genre:

Fascimiles.

Prayer books.

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, 19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 loose leaves)

Place of Publication:

[West Africa?], [between 1850 and 1899?]

Language Note:

Arabic.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Loose leaf copy of portions of a book of prayers divided by day. This copy contains parts of prayers said on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and is in catchword order, though leaves are missing. Some leaves have been replaced in a different hand, on modern, lined paper (text is written perpendicular to the lines).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Leaves are unfoliated and loose; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: Written in 6 long lines.

Script: Written in a maghribī influenced West African naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red; headings for the days have a red and black border around them.

Binding: Unbound; loose leaf codex with nothing to hold the leaves together.

Origin: Item is undated, probably produced in the 19th century; machine-made paper.

Dimensions of original manuscript: 96 x 126 (70 x 90) mm.

Machine-made paper; ruled by folding.

Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2019.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 2003-82-445.

OCLC:

1112608132