Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Collection

Oriental Collection

Present shelfmark

Arab O. 040

Former shelfmark

Total pages

78 fols

Folio measures

152x101 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Adʿiya. [أدعیة]

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

[م]ت

Colophon position

Fol. 72v

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Dévényi, Kinga, Munif Abdul-Fattah, and Katalin Fiedler, eds. Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Islamic Manauscripts and Books 9. Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2016

Descriptive card

This undated manuscript contains several chapters from the Koran (fols. 1v– 51r), known for their apotropaic function, followed by the 99 names (al-asmāʾ al-ḥusnā) of God (fols. 51v–53r), legitimizing notes and commentaries on the effects of certain prayers (Duʿā-i ḥarāmī; Duʿā-i nūr-i ʿaẓīm; Mühür-i Muḥammad, Duʿā-i ḳuş) and rituals in Ottoman Turkish together with the text of the prayers in Arabic (fols. 53r–69r, 71v–72v), the physical description (ḥilya) of Muḥammad and the first four caliphs (fols. 69v–71r). Fols. 73r–78v are framed but left blank. The Koranic passages are as follows: – Q. 36 Yā-Sīn (fols. 1v–6r); – Q. 48 al-Fatḥ (fols. 6v–10r); – Q. 67 al-Mulk—Q. 114 al-Nās (fols. 10r–50r); – Q. 1 al-Fātiḥa (fol. 50r); – Q. 2 al-Baqara, āyas 1–5 (fol. 50v); – Q. 2 al-Baqara, hāḏā duʿāʾ āyat al-kursī (fols. 50v–51r). 78 fols.; 11 lines/page; p. d. 152×101mm, w. s. 118×62mm; illuminated headpiece on fol. 1v in gold, red, green, orange, blue and mauve ink; full leather binding; with gilded almond-shaped centre-piece (OSd) and corner pieces; with flap; paper doublure; in good condition; paper: laid paper with watermarks; script: nasḫī; fully vocalized; ink: black; diagonal catchwords in black ink; headings in red ink; frames on fols. 1v–2r in gold ink; rule-borders in red ink; the āya boundaries in gold ink.

Entry author

Marina Santana