Name/Title
Miniature manuscriptEntry/Object ID
K_1018Description
Miniature format. Oriental script, square and semi-cursive (characteristic of Baghdad), written in black ink and some colored ink. Initial panels and decorations in color. All pages bordered by frames (colored pink, brown, and yellow). Floral decorations in several places. Most pages begin with dome-shaped text: "Know before Whom you stand..." Decorated title page in middle of manuscript. Includes weekday Minchah and Maariv praters, and beginning of an Arabic translation of Shir HaShirim (with divisional title page; after which leaves are missing), and Kabbalat Shabbat (interrupted at beginning of Maariv for Shabbat). Kabbalistic kavanot incorporated within text and in margins. 18 leaves including 3 blank leaves.Made/Created
Place
City
Baghdad* Untyped Place
IraqContinent
AsiaRegion
Middle EastNotes
Date made: turn of the 20th century