Prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection : manuscript
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Description
- Title
- Prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection : manuscript
- Contributor
- Rāsim, Muḥammad, Active 1850.
- Published / Created
- 1850 or 1851.
- Publication Place
- Place not identified
- Abstract
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Collection of prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection from the enemies, with many verses from the Qurʼān. Name of the author not mentioned. Copied and illuminated in 1267 Hijrī (1850 or 1851) by the calligrapher al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir nicknamed "Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān" (Memorizer of the Qurʼān). Place of copying not mentioned
- Description
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In Arabic.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Īyāka naʻbudu wa-īyāka nastaʻīn. Ihdinā al-ṣirāṭa al-mustaqīm, ṣirāṭa alladhīna anʻamta ʻalayhim, ghayr al-maghḍūbi ʻalayhim wa-lā al-ḍāllīn ..."
Secundo folio: nunjī al-muʼminīn.
10 x 16 cm; written surface: 5 x 9 cm; 13 lines per page.
Binding: Bound in contemporary blue wrapper with flap; both covers beautifully hand-decorated in gilt.
In beautiful naskh script, in black ink on white paper, keywords in red; the opening page is illuminated with a handsome heading in gold, blue, rose, and other colors; there are also four different medallions on the margins in gold, blue and other colors (folios 1b, 5a, 9a, 11a); catchwords; text within gold frame.
Text folios 1b-11b.
Interspersed in the text is an invocatory refrain, repeated ten times, in red ink: "Aʻdāʼunā lan yaṣilū ilaynā bi-al-nafs wa-lā bi-al-wāsiṭah, lā qudrata lahum ʻalá īṣāl al-sūʼ ilaynā bi-ḥāl min al-aḥwāl" (Our enemies will not be able to reach us, neither in person nor by proxy. They have no power to inflict harm on us under any circumstances).
Colophon: "Katabahu al-mudhnib al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim min talāmīdh Muḥammad Dhākr [al-mulaqqab] bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān, ghufira la-humā, sanat 1267 H."
Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the guilty al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir [nicknamed] Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān [Memorizer of the Qurʼān], may God forgive both of them, in the year 1267 Hijrī [1850 or 1851]." - Provenance
- Purchased from Worldwide Antiquarian on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2005.
- Extent
- 1 volume (12 leaves) ; 16 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Arabic
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Arabic MSS suppl. 594
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Arabic 19th century
Arabic manuscripts - Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts
Invocation
Religious aspects
Islam
Prayer - Subjects
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Qurʼan. Selections
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Invocation > Religious aspects > Islam
Prayer > Islam
19th century
Arabic manuscripts
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13272017
- Object ID (OID)
- 32472314
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