University of Pennsylvania, LJS 38

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DS ID:

DS642

Shelfmark:

LJS 38

Title:

Prayers and commentary.

Scribe:

Ilyās ibn Khamzah ʻAlī Niyat ʻAlī ibn Khamzah, active 1484 / الياس بن خمزه علي نيت علي بن خمزه, d

Ilyās ibn Khamzah ʻAlī Niyat ʻAlī ibn Khamzah WIKIDATA

Place:

Turkey

Turkey TGN

Date:

A.H. 889 (1484)

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic, with commentary in Ottoman Turkish

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 221 leaves : paper ; 140 x 100 (83 x 62) mm bound to 140 x 112 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847

Johann Heinrich van Ess WIKIDATA

Schiller, Johann Michael, 17th century

Johann Michael Schiller WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation: Paper, i + 221; 1⁶ 2¹² 3⁸ 4¹² 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹²(-2) 9⁸ 10⁷ 11-12⁶ 13-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17-19¹⁰ 20¹² 21⁸ 22² 23⁸ 24² 25⁸ 26¹⁰; 1-108, [i], 109-220, later European foliation in ink, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Origin: Copy completed in Ṣafar A.H. 889 (March 1484; colophon, f. 220r).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 11 long lines, border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Black or red woodcut fillet border on each page; rubrications in red or green ink; some leaves stained yellow or red.
Binding: Dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gilt stamped central medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis on covers, coordinating stamp on flap; reddish leather doublure; labels on spine; description of manuscript in German on note pasted to inside upper cover.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 26 Nov. 1968, lot 245, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly owned by Johann Michael Schiller, 1655 (inscription inside lower cover; another 17th-century inscription on the inside lower cover is not legible).
Formerly owned by Leander van Ess; sold as part of his collection in 1823 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 757 (spine label, stamp and number in ink on f. 1 recto).

Keyword:

diagrams

annotations

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

prayers (literary genre)

Devotional literature

Manuscripts, Arabic

Manuscripts, Turkish

Islam--Prayers and devotions

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958164163503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3vh5cj6f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania