Book of prayers

Object Details

• Description

  Manuscript; selection of suras from the Qur'an followed by prayers; text: Arabic in black naskh script; vocalized in black; 128 folios with 2 sarlawhs (fols. 1 verso-2 recto), 10 illuminated pages (fols.123-127), illuminated headings, and gold verse markers; standard page: one column, 9 lines of text.

  Binding: The manuscript is bound in red leather over paper pasteboards with gold tooling on the exterior covers.

• Provenance

  To 1906

  Dr. F.W. Mann, to 1906 [1]

  From 1906 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Dr. F.W. Mann, at Luxor, Egypt, in 1906 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record, this object was a gift to C.L Freer from Dr. F.W. Mann, on December 25, 1906, at Luxor, Egypt. In the inventory lists it was included in a lot of ten unidentified books, from the Freer house library, recorded in the Reserved Book List, R. 6013 (see Curatorial Remark 1, G.D.G., 1935, in the object record, as well as F1906.302, Curatorial Remark 1, G.D.G., 1935, in the object record). See further, Reserved Book List, R. 6013.4, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dr. Frederick Wharton Mann (born 1854) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Turkey

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1700s, 1900s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Mann, Frederick Wharton

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Book of Prayers, Ottoman period (1307 - 1922), Arts of the Islamic World, Qur'an

• Culture

  Muslims, Turks

• Language

  Naskh script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts