1985.260: Illustrated Manuscript of An`am-i Sharif (Prayer Book) in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic
Manuscripts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.260
- Title
- Illustrated Manuscript of An`am-i Sharif (Prayer Book) in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript
- Date
- c. 1790
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Period
- Ottoman period
- Culture
- Ottoman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215214
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Painting with calligraphy; ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.6 x 14 x 2 cm (8 7/8 x 5 1/2 x 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1962, lot 91], sold; to Edwin Binney, 3rd, 1962, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1985.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Edwin Binney, 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- 1985.260
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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This small manuscript is a composite of texts interspersed with twenty-two illuminated calligraphic compositions, including the footprint, hand, sandal, and sword of the Prophet Muhammad. There are also calligraphic seals of the prophets as well as names of God.
The texts include fragmentary chapters of the Qur'an, Turkish prayers written in the eighteenth century, and a nineteenth-century copy of the Futuh al-Haramayn. The last is a pilgrims' guide to the two holiest shrines of Islam, the Kaᶜba at Mecca and the Tomb of the Prophet at Medina.
Publication History
- Edwin Binney III, Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd, exh. cat., Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, 1979), page 138-139/figure 90
Exhibition History
- The Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1987 - 08/02/1987
- Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimages, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/06/1991 - 06/09/1991
- The Ottomans and their Contemporaries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/1992 - 05/17/1992
- The Continuous Stroke of a Breath: Calligraphy from the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 12/20/2003 - 07/18/2004
- 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/07/2018 - 04/17/2019
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