Manuscript/Mixed Material Sharh-i namaz
About this Item
Title
- Sharh-i namaz
Summary
- This work is not a commentary on the namāz, but a selection of Qurʼānic sūrahs and prayers to be read during Ramaḍān.
Names
- Ṭālib Nizhād, scribe
Created / Published
- 1241 [1825 or 1826]
Contents
- Sūrat Yāsīn -- Sūrat al-Mulk -- Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ -- Sūrat al-Fatḥ -- [various prayers for Ramaḍān]
Headings
- - Ramadan--Prayers and devotions
- - Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
- - Iran
Notes
- - Manuscript.
- - Arabic and Persian.
- - Title from container.
- - Copied by Ṭālib Nizhād.
- - Written in Iran.
- - Paper: light grey inlaid paper on dyed paper in orange and greyish green; text interlined with gold leaf; elaborate unwans for Qurʼān verses and gold ink for other section headings; text within and elaborate ruled border of gold and red; text in black and gold ink with marginal section headings also in gold; no rubrication; no catchwords.
- - Naskh; 9 lines in written area 15.7 x 8.7 cm.
- - Fol. 1b-48b.
- - Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, M63.
- - Dark red leather contemporary binding; embossed with gold border; and center medallions. gold embossing at four corners of cartouche with center medallion; rebacked nore recently with brown leather spine.
- - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Medium
- 48 leaves (9 lines), paper : bound ; 23 x 15 cm
Call Number/Physical Location
- BP186.4 .S486 1825
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2016496951
Online Format
- image