University of Pennsylvania, LJS 444
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS684
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 444
- Title:
- Ḥall al-Mūjiz.
- Aqsarāʼī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 14th century / اقسرائي، محمد بن محمد، active 14th century
- Scribe:
- Astarābādī, ʻAlī ibn Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd / استرابادي، علي بن كمال الدين محمود،
- Date:
- A.H. 884 (1480)
- Language:
- Arabic
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 246 leaves : paper, illustrations ; mm bound to mm +
- Former Owner(s):
- al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, active 1846 / الحاج عبد القادر بن السيد عبد الله الاسطواني، active 1846،
Ismāʻīl ibn al-Ḥājj ʻĪsá Jurayj al-Muhannā, active 1781 / اسماعيل بن الحاج عيسى جريج المهنى، active 1781
ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, active 1824 / عبد الله الاسطواني، active 1824،
ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Qāṭin, active 1698 / عبد الفتاح القاطن، active 1698
- Note:
- Origin: Copy completed on 12 Shawwāl A.H. 884 (5 January 1480), by ʻAlī ibn Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Astarābādī, with replacement leaves added in the 18th century (f. 240v).
Binding: Contemporary (late 15th-century) pasteboards, remnant of 17th-century cloth spine, covers detached.
Ms. codex.
Readers' notes dated 986 A.H. (1578 or 1579) (third front flyleaf verso); owners' stamps (front flyleaf 2 recto, f. 1r, 240v).
Decoration: Diagram of the human eye and its communication with the brain (f. 133v); significant words and phrases and overlining in red.
Foliation: Paper, 246 + i (18th-century?) ; [i-v, 1], 2-240, [241]; contemporary foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines with marginal notes (except on replacement leaves, f. 63-64, 125-130, 157-162, 173-178).
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
Title from added title (f. 1r).
Formerly owned by ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, A.H. 1239/1240 (1824 or 1825) (note, front flyleaf 1 recto, f. 240v).
Formerly owned by Ismāʻīl ibn al-Ḥājj ʻĪsá Jurayj al-Muhannā, Rabi II A.H. 1195 (March-April 1781, inscription on front pastedown).
Formerly owned by al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, 1262 A.H. (1846) (note, front flyleaf 1 recto).
Formerly owned by ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Qāṭin, Tabriz, 1110 A.H. (1698 or 1699) (note, front flyleaf 1 recto).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Sold at auction at Bonhams & Butterfields, 14 Nov. 2002, lot 3001, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959031653503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3th8bn7p/manifest
- Holding Institution:
