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DS ID:

DS4175

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 23

Title:

Mukhtaṣar Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl.

Author:

Ibn al-ʻImād, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1422-1482 / ابن العماد، محمد بن محمد،

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻImād WIKIDATA

Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286? / بيضاوي، عبد الله بن عمر،

Baidawi WIKIDATA

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 172 leaves : 263 x 170 (200 x 125) mm bound to 263 x 170 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Manuscripts, Oriental--15th century Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century Abridgements Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents)

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger based on introduction (f. 1v).
An inscription is dated 22 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1285 (March 6, 1869) (f. 1r).
Binding: Bound in pasteboard boards with brown paper sides with a black inked window design and frame, leather edges and cornerpieces. Plain paper doublure.
Layout: 29 long lines; frame ruled with a misṭarah. Some marginal headers and notes.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red. Short titles upper left recto.
Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
Provenance: Sold in February 1925 as "Ihmu'l-Ansul: 'The Science of the Roots,' i.e. the Rules for interpreting dreams and Islamic Exegesis, etc." (catalog excerpt and note inside front cover).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Oriental--15th century

Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century

Abridgements

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_023.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_023/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia