Binding: Composite leather, front and back covers are different colors with different style stamps; blind-stamped central medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis; bright red leather spine and edges; endbands in bright blue and pink; paper label with title Kitāb al-Qānūn in ink on upper cover. Origin: Written in A.H. 899-904 (1494-1498, colophons, f. 356r, 489r, 541r, 598v). Ms. codex. Decoration: 2 illuminated headpieces, the first rubbed (f. 1v, 542v), and space left open for another headpiece (f. 357v); overlining, a few significant words and phrases, and simple ornamentation around colophons (f. 356r, 489r, 541r) in red ink in first section of manuscript (f. 1v-541r); much less overlining and more words and phrases in red in second section of manuscript (f. 542v-598v... Script: Written in naskh script, in the hand of Fārij al-Karab Yūsuf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Fayyāḍ al-ʻArab (colophons, f. 356r, 489r, 541r, 598v) and also perhaps another hand (f. 1v-541r, 542v-598v). Foliation: Paper, xviii (later) + 598; [i-xviii, i], 1-540, [i], 541-596, foliation added in ink, perhaps at the same time as the table of contents, upper left recto; [i-xviii, 1-598], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Layout: Written in 29 long lines. Title supplied by cataloger. Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012. Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 3 May 2001, lot 32, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
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