University of Pennsylvania, LJS 398

Images provided by hosting institution via

Metadata

DS ID:

DS649

Shelfmark:

LJS 398

Title:

Maqālah fī khalq al-insān.

Author:

Saʻīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, 1004-1101 / سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين, 1004-1101

Saʻīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn WIKIDATA

Scribe:

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Ṣafūrī / عبد الرحمن بن عبد السلام الصفوري

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Ṣaffūrī WIKIDATA

Place:

Syria or Iraq

Syria TGN

Date:

A.H. 689 (1290)

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 84 leaves : paper ; 255 x 172 (185 x 125-130) mm bound to 257 x 182 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern) + 84 + i (modern); [1-84], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto (f. 1-44 also foliated with eastern Arabic numerals in ink, upper left recto). Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Origin: Copy completed in Mamluk Syria or Iraq by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Ṣafūrī on 15 Jumādá al-Ākhirah A.H. 689 (colophon, f. 84r).
Binding: Later morocco with gilt-stamped onlays of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces.
Decoration: Rubrications in red.
Title from introduction (f. 1v).
Script: Written in rapid naskh in black ink; pointed.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
Several notes and ownership seals on first and last pages (f. 1r, 84v).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2000.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Arabic

Reproduction

Soul

Medicine, Arab

Medicine

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958945863503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3kd59/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania