University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 447

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DS ID:

DS686

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 447

Title:

Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār.

Author:

Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1301-1349 / ابن فضل الله العمري، احمد بن يحيى، 1301-1349

Chihab al-Umari WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Ḥamawī, Jibrāyil ibn Mikhāyil, active 1710 / حموي، جبرايل بن مخايل، active 1710،

Jibrāyil ibn Mikhāyil Ḥamawī WIKIDATA

Place:

Aleppo

Aleppo TGN

Date:

1710.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 195 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 410 x 287 (308 x 195) mm bound to 413 x 300 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Watercolors Manuscripts, Renaissance

Note:

Origin: Written in Aleppo, Syria, in 1710 by Jibrāyil ibn Mikhāyil al-Ḥamawī, known as Ibn Lubbād (f. 195r).
Decoration: 584 watercolor miniatures of animals and plants; rubrications in red.
Script: Written in clear naskh in black ink; pointed. Section headings in thuluth in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Binding: Leather, blind-stamped central mandorla and blind-tooled frame; spine repaired.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines.
Foliation: Paper, 195 + i; [1-7], 8-31, 31-104, 104-193; later foliation in ink, upper left recto.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Sold at auction at Christie's, 21 Oct. 2002, lot 59, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

Watercolors

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Illustrated works

codices (bound manuscripts)

Pictorial works

Herbals (reference sources)

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Arabic

Zoology

Early works

Botany

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949211133503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p38p5v971/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania