University of Pennsylvania, LJS 386
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS639
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 386
- Title:
- Kitāb Mīzān al-ḥikmah.
- Khāzinī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1121 / خازني، عبد الرحمن، active 1121
- Date:
- [1250?-1350?]
- Language:
- Arabic
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 98 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 195 x 160 (145 x 110) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J
Diagrams - Note:
- Binding: Unbound, with some partial gatherings still joined or repaired at gutter.
Decoration: 26 diagrams and 18 tables in red and black ink; rubrications in red.
Origin: Item is undated, likely copied sometime between the last half of the 13th century and the first half of the 14th century.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed, with headings in larger tawqīʻ.
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.
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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948249193503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3dr2p90c/manifest
- Holding Institution:
