University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 25
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- DS ID:
- DS30286
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 25
- Title:
- Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn wa-īḍāḥ sabīl al-murshidīn / تنبيه الغافلين وايضاح سبيل المرشدين
- Author:
- Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad, -983? / ابو الليث السمرقندي، نصر بن محمد، -983؟
- Place:
- North Africa?
- Date:
- 1419
- Language:
- Arabic
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 142 leaves, unbound : paper ; 270 x 205 (195 x 160) mm bound to 270 x 215 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903
Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921
- Note:
- Title from introduction (f. 1r).
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper right verso; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Layout: 23 long lines.
Script: Written in maghribi in brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications chiefly in red, but also in green and purple.
Binding: The covers are brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with a blind stamped and tinted central mandorla and blind tooled frames. The flap has a coordinating blind stamped, tinted medallion. The pastedowns on the inside covers and the flap have been trimmed in a scalloped pattern along one edge. The covers are not bound to the text. Endbands in crimson and white are visible...
Origin: Copy completed on 23 Safar 822 A.H. (March 30, 1419), though that may be copied from another manuscript (f. 140v).
Two leaves have been laid into the volume.
Formerly owned by Marcus Jastrow and Morris Jastrow, Jr.
Accessioned, 1934. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9914691833503681
- Holding Institution:
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