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Metadata

DS ID:

DS679

Shelfmark:

LJS 439

Title:

Book on the configuration of the orb

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

Spain TGN

Date:

13--?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

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:

Ms. codex.
Title and author identified by Taro Mimura, University of Manchester.
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.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
Script: Written in neat, Andalusian maghribi script in brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
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.
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.
Origin: Likely copied in Andalusia, possibly in Seville, in the 14th century.
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:

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

treatises

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Arabic

Physics

Early works

Islamic cosmology

Islamic philosophy

Four elements (Philosophy)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948302563503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3s06d/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania