Qaṣīdah / A.H. 1330 (1912); قصيدة

Name:

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.; Abdulrazak, Fawzi, former owner.

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

Subject:

Islam -- Prayers and devotions

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); prayers (compositions); Manuscripts, Arabic; 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 Item 18

Collection:

Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund; Collection of Fez Manuscripts