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[Collection of Qurʼānic sūrahs, prayers, invocations and diagrams]
Additional title: Tahlil al-Qur’an
Collection

Arabic manuscripts collection

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1874 (Approximate)
Place: Turkey; [Anatolia?]; [Balkans?]
Table of Contents
fols. 2b-3a - Duʻā-i şerīf (in Ottoman Turkish); 3b-72b - Qurʼanic sūrahs; 72b-75b: rivāyet-i Ebūʹl-Ḳāsim Ḳüşeyrīʹden (in Ottoman Turkish); 76b-84a: Tahlīl al-Qurʼān; 84a: al-Āyah al-ūlá; 84a-84b: al-Āyah al-thāniyah; 84b: al-Āyah al-thālithah; 85a: al-Āyah al-rābiʻah; 85a-85b: al-Āyah al-khāmisah; 85b: al-Āyah al-sādisah; 85b-86a: al-Āyah al-sābiʻah; 86a-88b: al-Asmāʼ al-ḥusná; 88b-97a: Sharḥ adʻīyat ayyām al-usbūʻ (wa-adʻīyat ayyām al-usbūʻ); 97a-106b: Sharḥ al-āyāt al-arbaʻ (in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic); 106b: Ḥadīth sharīf; 107b-125b: Duʻā-i devlet (in Ottoman Turkish); 125b-134a: unidentified Duʻā (in Ottoman Turkish, title missing); 134b-138a: unidentified Duʻā (in Ottoman Turkish, title missing); 138b-141a: Duʻā Khiḍr Ilyās (in Arabic); 141b-143a: Şerḥ-i duʻā-ı Ḥasan Hüseyin (in Ottoman Turkish); 143b-145a: Sharḥ Duʻā Ḥasan Ḥusayn; 145b-146a: Şerḥ-i Bāz Band ʻAlī; 146b-147a: Duʻā Bāz Band ʻAlī (in Arabic); 147b-152b: Şerḥ-i Duʻā-ı tevḥīd (in Ottoman Turkish); 153a-158a: Duʻā tawḥīd (in Arabic); 158b: Bu mühür-i şerīf; 159a-162a: ḥilyes; 162b: depiction of prophecy (nubuvvet-i şerīf); 163a: diagram of the People of the Cave (Aṣḥāb Kahf); 163b: God's name (Jall Jalālah); 164a: The Prophet's name (Ism Muḥammad); 164b: depiction of the Prophet's banner; 165a: depiction of the Prophet's hand; 165b: depiction of the Prophet's footprint; 166a: depiction of the Prophpet's sandal; 166b: depiction of the sword of ʻAlī (Dhū al-Fiqār); 167a - depiction of Shajar Ṭūbá; 167b - depiction of the Noble (the Prophet's) Battle-ax (teber-i şerīf); 168a - depiction of the Noble (the Prophet's) rose (resm-i gül-i şerīf); 168b - depiction of the Noble (the Prophet's) palm tree; 169a - depiction of the Noble (the Prophet's) staff; 168b - depiction of the Noble (the Prophet's) scales; 170a - depiction of various objects belonging to the Prophet; 170b - depiction of the Noble (the Prophet's) Mantle; 171a - depiction of the Seal of Solomon (Mühür-i Süleymān), 171b-172a- two depiction of the Seal of Healing (Mühür-i Şifā); 172b - The Seal of Āyat al-Kursī; 173a - Şekil-i ʻAlī; 173b-174a - depictions of Mecca and Medina; 174b-180a - Sharḥ Ṣalawāt al-Nūr (in Arabic); 180a-181a - Duʻā Rasūl Allāh (in Arabic); 181a-181b- Şerḥ-i Duʻā-i Müstecāb (in Ottoman Turkish); 181b-182b - Duʻā Mustajāb (in Arabic); 182b-185b- untitled commentary on Duʻā Mustajāb (in Ottoman Turkish); 185b - Prayer for getting rich (in Arabic); 186a-187b - prayer for good fortune (in Ottoman Turkish); 187b-188b- Şerḥ-i Duʻā-ı İm̄ān (in Ottoman Turkish); 188b-190a - Duʻā-ı İm̄ān (in Arabic); 190a-194b - Rāvīyān-i aḫbār ve nāḳilān-i āsā̲r; 195a - diagram; 195b-196a- Duʻā-i Mübārek (in Arabic); 196a - Duʻā-ı Munājāt (in Arabic); 196b- Tārīḫ-i Ḥayy Ḳādir Ḫāliḳ (in Ottoman Turkish); 196b-197a - Duʻā Sayyid Istighfār (in Arabic); 197a-197b - Duʻā Sayyid Istighfār (in Arabic); 197b - Duʻā-ı Şerīf (in Arabic); 197b-199a - Adʻiyah-i (?) Şerīf (in Arabic); 199b-207a - various diagrams, including several genealogies of the Prophet; 207a-208a - Sūrah-i Ṣalavāt-i Şerīf (in Arabic); 208a-209a - Duʻā-ı īmān (in Arabic); 209b-210a - Duʻā qabr (in Arabic); 210a-211a -Duʻā-i Haz̤ret-i Süleymān (in Arabic); 211b-214a- Şerḥü'l-Enbiyā (in Ottoman Turkish); 214a-215a - Suʼāl-ı Münkirīn (in Ottoman Turkish); 215a-215b - Duʻā-i ʻAhdnāmeh (in Arabic); 215b -224b- Duʻā-ı Ṣalavāt-ı Kabīr (in Arabic); 224b-225b - Sūrah-i Āyāt-i karīmah (in Arabic); 225b- 227b- Duʻā-i Müstecāb (in Ottoman Turkish); 227a-228a - Duʻā-i Müstecāb (in Ottoman Turkish); 228a-229b - Invocation for the completion of the recitation of the Qurʼan (Duʻā-i Ḥatm-i Şerīf) (in Arabic); 229b-237b- Duʻā-i Cemīl-i Şerīf (in Arabic); 237b-238a - genealogy (silsilah) of the Prophet (in Ottoman Turkish); 238a-245a- [Duʻā-i] Seyyid-i İstiğfār-i Kebīr; 245a-246b - Şerḥ-i Duʻā-ı Şerīf (in Ottoman Turkish); 246b-248a - Duʻā-ı Şerīf (in Arabic); 248b-252a - Duʻā-i Surḫuyād (in Ottoman Turkish); 252b - two untitled invocations in Arabic ; 253a - invocation for improving vision in Arabic (explanation in Ottoman Turkish); 253b-254a - unidentified invocation in Arabic.
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: M&A MS. Arab. 22
Topics
Prophet, Muḥammad, -632 -- Prayers and devotions
Prophet, Muḥammad, -632
Islam
Manuscripts, Turkish -- New York (State) -- New York
Manuscripts, Arabic -- New York (State) -- New York
Islam -- Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Turkish
Manuscripts, Arabic
New York (State) -- New York
Genres
illuminated manuscripts
Illuminated manuscripts-Turkey-19th century
Headpieces (layout features)-Turkey-19th century
Leather binding-Turkey-19th century
naskhī
Prayers and devotions
Notes
Citation/reference: Islamic Manuscripts in the New York Public Library, (ed.) Barbara Schmitz (NYPL / Oxford University Press, 1992), pages 49-50, 286-287.
Content: Ms. codex
Content: Copied circa 1291 [1874].
Preferred citation: NYPL. M&A MS. Arab. 22
Funding: Preservation and access were made possible by the generous support of Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos.
Language: Arabic and Ottoman Turkish; Naskh script.
Date: Date copied: circa 1291 (Islamic calendar)
Physical Description
Extent: 2-254 leaves :paper, ink , illuminations, miniatures ;164 x 105 mm (123 x 78 mm)
Cream burnished European paper. Ottoman naskh script in black ink, some headings are written in Thuluth. Headings in red, brownish red and dark mauve. Rulings in gold and black (sometimes in lapis blue). Separating dots in gold, blue, red and black. 9 lines. 3b-4a - Sarlawḥ with two ogival headpieces, ruled in turquoise greem. The headpieces are patterned with vegetal motifs in blue, light orange and light mauve. Three have medallions in lapis blue in the margins and the center. The medallions are patterned with vegetal motifs in red, orange, mauve and gold. The background of the text is filled with gold. 174b- headpiece ruled in dotted stripes in light blue, light mauve and gold. A headpiece on fol. 207b similar to those on folios 3b-4a. The last 3 folios are written in shoddier hand.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
Arabic
Turkish
Identifiers
MSS Unit ID: 116
RLIN/OCLC: 1567968321
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b23923112
Barcode: 33433133561674
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): bac32e40-aba0-013f-b1e7-0242ac110002
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