University of Pennsylvania, LJS 392
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS644
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 392
- Title:
- Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr.
- Author:
- Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, -1328 or 1329 / نيسابوري، نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد، -1328 أو 1329
- Scribe:
- Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasan, active 1411 / محمد بن الحسين الحسن، active 1411
- Place:
- Iran
- Date:
- A.H. 813 (1411)
- Language:
- Arabic
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 213 leaves : paper ; 264 x 166 (166 x 95) mm bound to 264 x 180 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J
Siṭrābī, Yāsīn ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb / سطرابي، ياسين بن عبد الوهاب،
- Note:
- Binding: Dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-stamped mandorla on covers and flap; plain paper doublure.
Several effaced owner's stamps (f. 1r).
Ms. codex.
Origin: Possibly written in Persia, now Iran, dated 13 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, A.H. 813 (18 March 1411, colophon, f. 213r).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Decoration: Large astronomical diagram in black ink on iridescent ground (f. 156r); numerous small astronomical diagrams and a few tables (f. 18v-19v) in red ink, some diagrams with additions in gold; a few rubrications in gold, though they end close to the beginning of the text, and blank spaces have been left; overlining in red.
Layout: Written in 29 long lines.
Script: Written in a naskh script by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasan (colophon, f. 213r).
Collation: Paper, 213 + i. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2000.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Formerly owned by Yāsīn ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Siṭrābī (?) (f. 1r). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9950804433503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p33x83m31/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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