University of Pennsylvania, LJS 398
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS649
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 398
- Title:
- Maqālah fī khalq al-insān / مقالة في خلق الانسان
- Saʻīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, 1044-1101 / سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين, 1004-1101
- Scribe:
- ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Ṣafūrī / عبد الرحمن بن عبد السلام الصفوري
- Place:
- Syria or Iraq
- Date:
- A.H. 689 (1290)
- Language:
- Arabic
- Material:
- paper
- 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
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from introduction (f. 1v).
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.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
Script: Written in rapid naskh in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red.
Binding: Later morocco with gilt-stamped onlays of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces.
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).
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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958945863503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3kd59/manifest
- Holding Institution:
