University of Pennsylvania, LJS 439

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS679

Shelfmark:

LJS 439

Title:

Book on the configuration of the orb.

Author:

Dunash ibn Tamim, active 10th century / دنش بن تميم, active 10th century

Dunash ibn Tamim WIKIDATA

Place:

Seville?, Spain

Seville TGN

Date:

[13--?]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 25 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 235 x 165 (163 x 113) mm bound to 238 x 168 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Title and author identified by Taro Mimura, University of Manchester.
Ms. codex.
Binding: Modern morocco with earlier blind-tooled morocco covers laid on new covers; manuscript has holes affecting small areas of text and has been extensively repaired.
Decoration: Cosmological diagrams (p. 1, 5-6, 14-15, 18, 22, 35, 37, 39, 41-42, 46) and diagrams of lunar phases and eclipses (p. 10, 12, 16-17) in ink.
Origin: Likely copied in Andalusia, possibly in Seville, in the 14th century.
Script: Written in neat, Andalusian maghribi script in brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
Pagination: Paper, i (modern paper) + 25 + i (modern paper) leaves; [1-50]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Also modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. References in this record are to modern pagination.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, October 2002.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

diagrams

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Manuscripts, Medieval

Physics

Islamic philosophy

Islamic cosmology

Four elements (Philosophy)

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948302563503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3s06d/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania