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[Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār]; [مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار]

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p38p5v971
Title: [Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār], [مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار]
Name: Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1301-1349, Ḥamawī, Jibrāyil ibn Mikhāyil, active 1710 (scribe)
Date: 1710
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, 18th century, Manuscripts, Renaissance, Codices (bound manuscripts), Herbals (reference sources), Watercolors, Illustrated works, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Descriptions and illustrations of domestic and wild animals, birds, insects, marine animals, plants, stemless plants, and herbs. Sources include Dioscorides, Galen, and Ibn al-Bayṭār. The larger, encyclopedic work of which the text of this manuscript is a part, also includes cosmography, geography, history, and biography.
Extent: 195 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 410 x 287 (308 x 195) mm bound to 413 x 300 mm
Language: Arabic
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger., Foliation: Paper, 195 + i; [1-7], 8-31, 31-104, 104-193; later foliation in ink, upper left recto., Layout: Written in 27 long lines., Script: Written in clear naskh in black ink; pointed. Section headings in thuluth in black ink; pointed, vocalized., Decoration: 584 watercolor miniatures of animals and plants; rubrications in red., Binding: Leather, blind-stamped central mandorla and blind-tooled frame; spine repaired., Origin: Written in Aleppo, Syria, in 1710 by Jibrāyil ibn Mikhāyil al-Ḥamawī, known as Ibn Lubbād (f. 195r)., Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., Arabic.
Relation: Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs447.html, The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p38p5v971
Subject: Zoology, Botany, Botany -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800, Zoology -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800, Botany -- Pre-Linnean works, Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 447
Provenance: Sold at auction at Christie's, 21 Oct. 2002, lot 59, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016., Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9949211133503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p38p5v971/manifest

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