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Metadata

DS ID:

DS608

Shelfmark:

LJS 295

Title:

Kitāb-i Advār / کتاب ادوار

Adwār

Author:

Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294 / ارموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف، approximately 1216-1294

Safi al-Din al-Urmawi WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

A.H. 815 (1412)

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian and Arabic

Persian WIKIDATA

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 61 leaves : paper ; 148 x 88 (118 x 50-52) mm bound to 151 x 92 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 61 + ii; 16 214 36 414 5-68 74(+1); [1-75], modern pagination in eastern arabic numerals in ink (f. 1v-38v), upper outer corners. Catchwords on each leaf of treatise (f. 1-37), some trimmed away, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines (f. 1-38); border-ruled; second work written in 14 long lines (f. 41-56).
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script by 2 hands (treatise f. 1-38, f. 41-56), with treatise headings in thuluth script.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (f. 1v); thuluth headings in gold, diagrams and tables in red and black, and selected characters and words in red ink throughout treatise; tables in red and black and numerals and selected words in red in second work.
Binding: Red leather with black leather doublure, gilt-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and gilt-stamped frame.
Origin: Copy of first work completed in A.H. 815 (1412) (f. 38v); second work completed in A.H. 1054 (1644) (f. 56v).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 22 April 1989, lot 25, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts

Seventeenth century

diagrams

compilation manuscripts

commentaries

Manuscripts, Arabic

treatises

Stamps

Manuscripts, Persian

Fifteenth century

Music

Islamic countries

Islamic magic

Symbolism of numbers

Early works

Arab countries

Music theory

Islamic occultism

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9950574213503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania