Miniature manuscript

Name/Title

Miniature manuscript

Entry/Object ID

K_1018

Description

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

Iraq

Continent

Asia

Region

Middle East

Notes

Date made: turn of the 20th century

Material

Ink on parchment