Ottoman book of prayers
| Müellif | Muhammad Amin al-Rushdi |
| Materyal türü | Yazma eser |
| Dil | İngilizce |
| Kurum | Chester Beatty |
| Kaynak | Europeana |
| Not | Ottoman book of prayers. Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, gold-painted leather bookcovers with separate green velvet slipcover with silver couch-embroidered Ottoman tughra, 131 folios, Arabic and Turkish text in naskh script, with illuminated headings, labelled scenes, tables and talismanic diagrams of holy places, objects and signs throughout, Ottoman book of prayers, (1: fols. 1v-4r) Prayer invocations to God (Du`a-yi jamīl), (2: fols. 4r-9r) Prayer invocations in God's names (Du`a min ism al-a`ẓam), (3: fols. 9r-76r) selected verses and suras from the Qur'ān, (4: fols. 76v-94r) litanies (ṣalawāt) to the Prophet, (5: fols. 94v-95r) inscribed diagrams for the names of God and the Prophet Muḥammad, (6: fols. 95v-96r) inscribed diagrams for the Prophet's seal (muhr al-nubawa), (7: fols. 96v-97r) description of the Prophet (Hilya al-nabī), (8: fols. 97v-98r) seals (muhr) of Imāms Ja`far al-Ṣādiq and `Alī (shakl `ayn) (9: fols. 98v-100v) topographical scenes of the Ka`ba in Mecca, the holy sanctuary (Ḥaram al-sharīf) in Jerusalem, and the Prophet's tomb and home in Medina, (10: fols. 100v-101r) labelled images of the Prophet's banner (liwā al-ḥamd), rosary (tasbīḥ sharīf), tooth-stick (miswāk sharīf) and battle standards, (11: fol. 101v) the Prophet’s genealogy as a rose-bush (naming his close Companions and family on the leaves), (12: fol. 102r) the Ṭūbā tree growing in paradise, and a list of the eight paradise gardens), (13: fols. 102v-130r) prayers of invocation for specific occasions, signed (colophon on fol. 130r) by Muḥammad Amīn al-Rushdī, known as Hāfiẓ al-Qur'ān of Edirne, guardsman (tabardār) of the Old Palace (Sara-yi `Atīq), one of the students of Hājj Muḥammad al-Rājī of Kūtāhya, Istanbul, Turkey, dated 1213H, 1798-1799. |
Muhammad Amin al-Rushdi, Ottoman book of prayers, Chester Beatty, https://www.europeana.eu/item/1100/5996?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=mmurvess.