University of Pennsylvania, LJS 387

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DS ID:

DS640

Shelfmark:

LJS 387

Title:

al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ.

Author:

Fīrūzābādī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb, 1329-1414 or 1415 / فيروزآبادى، محمد بن يعقوب، 1329-1414 يا 1415

Fairuzabadi WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran

Iran TGN

Date:

[between 1350 and 1450?]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 480 leaves : paper ; 232 x 160 (172 x 112) mm bound to 235 x 178 mm

Former Owner(s):

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qurrā, active 1742 / عبد الرحمن بن القرا، active 1742،

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qurrā WIKIDATA

Ṣābir, Muḥammad, active 1841 / صابر، محمد، active 1841،

Muḥammad Ṣābir WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Shakūrī, Ibrāhīm, active 1698 / شكوري، ابراهيم، active 1698،

Ibrāhīm al-Shakūrī WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: The item is undated and the scribe is not named; possibly produced in Iran in the last 14th or early 15th centuries.
Notes and stamps of ownership on last flyleaf recto.
Binding: Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II), gilt-stamped center medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; leather doublure with central quatrefoil medallion and two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces all in blue and green with black filigree overlay and gold tooling. The filigree is damaged or missing on most of the ornaments.
Decoration: Fully illuminated title page in polychrome and gold with floral motifs and title in central medallion (shamsa) (f. 1r); chapter headings in gold ink with illuminated panels and floral ornaments (f. 2r, for example); illuminated floral finispiece (f. 480r); significant words in red, blue, or gold ink; textblock borer-ruled in gold.
Layout: Written in 33-34 long lines; border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh, some headings in thuluth.
Title from introduction (f. 1v).
Purchased by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qurrā at the end of the month of Shawwāl 1155 A.H. (December, 1742) (note, last flyleaf recto).
Given by Muḥammad Ṣābir to Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Ṣibʻah? al-Shāfiʻī and his descendents in [1]257 A.H. (1841) (waqf note and stamps f. 480v)
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), cat. 22 (July 2000), no. 63, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm al-Shakūrī in 1110 A.H. (1698 or 1699) (stamp and note, f. 21r)
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

Dictionaries

Envelope flaps (features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Filigree

Manuscripts

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Arabic

gold-tooled (decoration)

Arabic language

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9954380453503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3k64b33s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania