Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 38 – Prayers and commentary (Video Orientation) (opens in new tab)

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 38 – Prayers and commentary. A collection of prayers in Arabic, each preceded by a commentary in Ottoman Turkish, with a diagram (f. 217v) and information at the end for calculating the direction of Mecca from different latitudes. […]