University of Pennsylvania, LJS 434

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS674

Shelfmark:

LJS 434

Title:

Jadāvil-i ikhtiyārāt.

Place:

Iran

Iran TGN

Date:

approximately A.H. 912 (1507)

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 7 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 216 x 137 (145 x 109) mm bound to 220 x 144 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in the Timurid Empire in eastern Persia, now Iran, ca. 1507 (based on date of horoscope diagram, f. 7v).
Binding: 19th-century light brown leather with faded, gold-tooled frame.
Decoration: 6 colored diagrams (eastern half of a double-page world map, f. 1r; structure and arrangement of seven climatic zones, f. 2v; geographical relationship of various cities to Mecca, f. 3r; rainbow predictions, f. 4v; setting and rising of the moon, f. 5r; half of a double-page horoscope diagram, f. 7v) and 8 decorated tables (ikhtiyārāt for the days of the solar month, f. 1v-2r...
Layout: Textblock border-ruled in gold with vertical margins extended to upper edge of the page.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, with headings in naskh script.
Foliation: Paper, 7; [1-7]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2002.

Keyword:

diagrams

almanacs

tables (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

world maps

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Persian

Islamic astrology

Islamic countries

Early works

Geography

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948287273503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3r34c/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania