Manuscript, on paper, containing al-Suyūṭī's Bard al-ẓilāl fī takrīr al-suʼāl, a treatise on the questioning which is administered to the dead in their graves concerning their belief in the Prophet
Description:
Copied about 1736.
Subject (Topic):
Death, Religious aspects, Islam, Future life, and Hadith
Emblematic funeral ticket for Isaac Watts, Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician who died 25 November 1748. In the center is a mausoleum decorated with pillars and scrolls with three small Cherub heads along the top and the l...
Description:
Title from letterpress text in a compartment left blank in an elaborately engraved pictorial sheet.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Cherubs, Churches, Coffins, Death, Funeral processions, Sun, Skeletons, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
A writing sheet engraved with vignettes and the large interior space left blank. At the top is a scene with a throne on a platform in the center at the top of a pie-shaped set of stairs with angels standing along the edges on both the right and the le...
