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<dl><dd>Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002</dd>
<dd>98 leaves : 130 x 85 (75 x 45) mm, bound to 130 x 89 mm</dd>
<dd>Devotional book containing numerous selections from the Qurʼān as well as prayers and talismans</dd>
<dd>Manuscript codex</dd>
<dd>Layout: Chiefly 7 long lines, with some tables and tabular layouts</dd>
<dd>Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized</dd>
<dd>Decoration: Illuminated headpieces in gold, yellow, blue, red and green with the text on cloudbands and a wide gold border rule (f. 1v, 69v); facing page also written on cloudbands with a wide gold border rule (f. 1r, 70r); gold roundels punctuate text; textblock border-ruled in gold; some in-text gold accents (for example f. 5v); gold text dividers; two simple gold finispieces (f. 66v-67r); some rubrications in faded red</dd>
<dd>Origin: Item is undated; probably produced in the 18th century</dd>
<dd>Shelfmark: MS Or 421</dd>
<dd>Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap; gilt stamped diaper grid pattern and gold frame; flap gilt stamped with vines; pink paper pastedowns; matching red leather case with tie, stamped in the same grid pattern as the codex on the front and a smaller, simplified diaper grid pattern on the back</dd>
<dd>Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description</dd>
<dd>Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR</dd>
<dd><b>Columbia University Catalog: </b>&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642793">http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642793</a>" rel="nofollow"&gt;go to CLIO&lt;/a&gt;</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Islam -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, Turkish; Islam</div>
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