University of Pennsylvania, LJS 295
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS608
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 295
- Title:
- Kitāb-i Advār.
- Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294 / ارموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف، approximately 1216-1294
- Place:
- Iran
- Date:
- A.H. 815 (1412)
- Language:
- Persian and Arabic
- 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
- Note:
- Binding: Red leather with black leather doublure, gilt-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and gilt-stamped frame.
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.
Origin: Copy of first work completed in A.H. 815 (1412) (f. 38v); second work completed in A.H. 1054 (1644) (f. 56v).
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script by 2 hands (treatise f. 1-38, f. 41-56), with treatise headings in thuluth script.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines (f. 1-38); border-ruled; second work written in 14 long lines (f. 41-56).
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.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 22 April 1989, lot 25, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9950574213503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p30z5j/manifest
- Holding Institution:
