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Metadata

DS ID:

DS639

Shelfmark:

LJS 386

Title:

Kitāb Mīzān al-ḥikmah / كتاب ميزان الحكمة

Mīzān al-ḥikmah

Author:

Khāzinī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1121 / خازني، عبد الرحمن، active 1121

Al-Khazini WIKIDATA

Date:

1250?-1350?

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, color illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 98 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 195 x 160 (145 x 110) mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from table of contents (p. 16, 17).
Pagination: Paper, 98 leaves; [3-18, 37-38, 43-78, 83-94, 97-188, 191-192, 231-232, 235-240, 243-244, 247-248, 261-276, 285-292]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed, with headings in larger tawqīʻ.
Decoration: 26 diagrams and 18 tables in red and black ink; rubrications in red.
Binding: Unbound, with some partial gatherings still joined or repaired at gutter.
Origin: Item is undated, likely copied sometime between the last half of the 13th century and the first half of the 14th century.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., cat. 22 (2000), to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

Early works

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

gatherings (gathered matter components)

treatises

detached leaves

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Arabic

tables (documents)

Balances (Weighing instruments)

Hydrostatics

Scales (Weighing instruments)

Mechanics

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948249193503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania