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DS ID:

DS607

Shelfmark:

LJS 293

Title:

al-Bayān wa al-tidhkār fī ṣinʻat ʻamal al-ghubār. / البيان و التذكار في صنعة عمل الغبار.

Author:

Abū Bakr al-Ḥaṣṣār, active 12th century / ابو بكر الحصار، active 12th century

Abu Bakr al-Hassar WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Baghdādī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Mujill / بغدادي، محمد بن عبد الله بن المجل،

Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Mujill Baghdādī WIKIDATA

Place:

Baghdād

Baghdad TGN

Date:

A.H. 590 (1194)

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

wove paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 86 leaves : wove paper ; 232 x 165 (164 x 114) mm bound to 234 x 175 mm

Former Owner(s):

Sāʻātī, ʻAlī ibn Thaʻlab / ساعاتي، علي بن ثعلب،

ʻAlī ibn Thaʻlab Sāʻātī al-Baghdādī WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 / طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274،

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: Copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Mujill al-Baghdādī at al-Madrasah al-Niẓāmīyah in Baghdad, completed A.H. Safar 590 (Jan.-Feb. 1194, f. 86r).
Binding: Early calf over paper boards, blind-stamped with central four-lobed medallion and rolled double frame with text in the outer frame.
Collation: Paper, i + 86 + i; 1⁸ 2¹² 3⁸ 4¹² 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹² 9⁶. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page and introduction (f. 1r, 1v).
Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Formerly owned by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (owner's statement, f.1r).
Sold at auction at Christie's, 20 Apr. 1999, lot 320, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly owned by ʻAlī ibn Thaʻlab (Taghlib) al-Sāʻātī al-Baghdādī, (owner's statement, f. 1r).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Early works

treatises

Manuscripts, Arabic

Arithmetic

Mathematics, Arab

Early works to 1900

Algebra

Early works to 1800

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948193403503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gz5w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania