University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 268
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- DS ID:
- DS156
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 268
- Title:
- Kitāb al-Majisṭī / كتاب المجسطي
- Author:
- Ptolemy, active 2nd century / بطليموس، active 2nd century
- Place:
- Spain
- Date:
- A.H. 783 (1381)
- Language:
- Arabic
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i, 174, i leaves : paper ; 280 x 215 (220 x 145) mm bound to 280 x 225 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Luṭf Allāh / احمد بن مبارك لطف الله،
Muḥammad al-Raʼīs / محمد الرأيس،
Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn ʻAbd al-Kabīr al-Kinānī al-Ḥasanī / محمد عبد الحي بن عبد الكبير الكناني الحسني،
Regnault, Eugène, -1933
Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 174; [1-37, 50-101, 124-145, 145-152, 101-124, 154-185]; modern foliation in pencil, correcting previous foliation in pencil, lower center recto.
Layout: Written in 36 long lines.
Script: Written in maghribī script by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Salāmah al- Sinhājī al-Muhājirī?, an astronomer (colophon, f. 185r).
Decoration: Diagrams, tables, titles, headings, and selected words in red throughout.
Watermark: Similar to Piccard, Axe, no. 788 (Florence, 1379).
Binding: Red leather with flap (Type II); blind-stamped central mandorla and double frame of straight rules; gold-tooled around the central stamp and small, gilt-stamped corner decorations; plain paper doublure.
Origin: Copied in Saragossa [Sarqusṭah] Spain in Jumādá al-Ākhirah A.H. 783 (September 1381 CE) for Ibn al-Qursunuh al-Isrāʼīlī, astronomer to Pedro IV of Aragon (colophon, f. 185r).
Many edges and corners of leaves mended with paper.
Formerly owned by Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Luṭf Allāh, Muḥammad al-Raʼīs and Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn ʻAbd al-Kabīr al-Kinānī al-Ḥasanī (series of notes, f. 1r).
Formerly owned by Imam Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Lutfullāh, Muḥammad al-Raʼīs and Imam Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Kathīr al-Kinānī (note by Misjo Rinijo or Misiyo Riniyo, probably Monsieur Regnault, a French ambassador, note dated 1922, f. 1v).
Offered in A.H. 1330/1912 (‘547 〈lunar〉 years after the date of copying’) by ‘the Sharīf’, probably Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥayy b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kittānī al-Ḥasanī, an Idrīsī sharīf, as a present to Eugène Regnault (d. 1933), French plenipotentiary minister in Tangier, probably on the signature of the Treaty of Fez (30 March 1912) as a result of which Morocco became a French protectorate, or on...
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1998.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9950583033503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3ff3m111/manifest
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