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DS ID:

DS681

Shelfmark:

LJS 441

Title:

Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm al-miftāḥ fī al-ḥikmah al-Ilāhīyah wa-al-ṣināʻah al-falsafīyah wa al-natījah al-ʻalīyah / كتاب المصباح ونزهة الارواح في علم المفتاح في الحكمة الالاهية والصناعة الفلسفية و النتيجة العلية

Miṣbāḥ fī ʻilm al-miftāḥ fī al-ḥikmah al-Ilāhīyah wa-al-ṣināʻah al-ḥikmīyah

Author:

Jaldakī, Aydamar ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1349-1361 / جلدكي، ايدمر بن عبد الله، active 1349-1361

Al-Jaldaki WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Shams al-Dīn ibn ʻAbbās, active 1562 / شمس الدين بن عباس، active 1562

Shams al-Dīn ibn ʻAbbās WIKIDATA

Place:

Aleppo

Aleppo TGN

Date:

A.H. 970 (1562)

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 128 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 212 x 155 (165-170 x 110-115) mm bound to 213 x 160 mm

Former Owner(s):

Tūqātī, ʻUbayd Allāh Bektāsh / توقاتي، عبيد الله بكتاش،

ʻUbayd Allāh Bektāsh Tūqātī WIKIDATA

Selim II, Sultan of the Turks, 1524-1574

Selim II WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title of first work from title page (f. 1r); title of second work from introduction (f. 93v).
Foliation: Paper, 128; [1-128], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left recto.
Layout: Written in 21 (f. 1-92) and 27 (f. 93-128) long lines.
Script: Written in a naskh in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: 3 drawings of plants in red ink (f. 91r-91v), with green coloring added to one of them; penwork in black and red ink around colophon of first work (f. 92v); 2 circular diagrams inside upper cover; rubrications in red.
Binding: Later morocco, bottom cover blind-stamped with a central mandorla, top cover laid with paper (cream over blue) decorated with a cut-out pattern.
Origin: Copy of first work completed at the end of Muḥarram in Aleppo (Syria) in A.H. 970 by al-Ḥājj Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbbās (f. 92v); second work is undated and unsigned.
Formerly owned by Bektāsh al-Tūqātī and then held in the library of Sultan Selim II (inscription, f. 93r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), Nov. 2002.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Formerly owned by Bektāsh al-Tūqātī and then held in the library of Sultan Selim II (inscription, transcribed by Nicholas Harris, f. 93r).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts

Sixteenth century

diagrams

treatises

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Alchemy

Early works

Jābir ibn Ḥayyān

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9950507863503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3639k58f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania