Fez Lithographs Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Date:
1912
Description:
Short prayer in verse decoratively copied on an oversized sheet, which is housed flat in a map drawer.
Language:
Arabic
Provenance:
Sold as part of the Fez Lithographs Collection by Fawzi Abdulrazak (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 2013.
Relation:
Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscoll960_item18.html; The Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366196
Prayers; Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts; Devotional literature
Physical Description:
1 item (1 bifolium) : paper; 445 x 355 mm
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Title from handlist.; Dated A.H. 11 Muharram 1330 (1 January 1912).; Probably written in Morocco, in Maghribi script, on one page of the bifolium (f. 2v); watermark of a Turkish or Persian phrase.; Border decoration and text division in gold ink.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.; In Arabic.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 960
Collection:
Collection of Fez Manuscripts; Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund
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