University of Pennsylvania, LJS 441

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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.

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

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:

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.
Script: Written in a naskh in black ink; pointed.
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.
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.
Foliation: Paper, 128; [1-128], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left recto.
Ms. codex.
Title of first work from title page (f. 1r); title of second work from introduction (f. 93v).
Layout: Written in 21 (f. 1-92) and 27 (f. 93-128) long lines.
Formerly owned by Bektāsh al-Tūqātī and then held in the library of Sultan Selim II (inscription, transcribed by Nicholas Harris, f. 93r).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Keyword:

diagrams

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Early works

Alchemy

Jābir ibn Ḥayyān

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9950507863503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3639k58f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania