Item Summary

Elegant copy of a collection of prayers with a name of one of the heroes of the Battle of Badr attached to each.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب صلواة البدرية.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Ṣalawāt al-Badrīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1136H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrv043582v
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1863
Extent
29 leaves : paper ; 215 x 135 (160 x 87) mm bound to 214 x 137 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1980.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption in headpiece (fol. [ii]b).
A few marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Insert describing the manuscript.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 29 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold, red and blue.
Description: Overlining and other use of red ; vowel signs ; paper tinted tan ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece in blue, green, gold, red and gray. Some section captions decorated with bands of floral design in gold and green. Illuminated colophon in gold, blue, green and red. Sentences are separated with dots of gold and color.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1279 (fol. 28b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وبعد ... اما بعد فهذه صلوات ودعوات مستجابات
Colophon: تمت صلوات البدرية بعون الله الملك الصمدانية لسنة تسع وسبعين ومأتين والف
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold-tooled central triangle with silver dots and decorative gold-tooled edging on covers. Gold-tooled decorative edging with silver dots on flap. Red paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Headbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
78

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9b719d5f-cb5c-4d17-ac98-7f2a3b3d8162/manifest