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Fawāʼid al-ḥabīb. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ; فوائد الحبيب. زنجار الحكماء

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3bg2hb1v
Title: Fawāʼid al-ḥabīb. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ, فوائد الحبيب. زنجار الحكماء
Name: Ibn al-Bahāʼ, Abu ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad, Hāshimī, Aḥmad ibn Saʻd Allāh, Anṣārī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh (scribe)
Date: 1400
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Treatises, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Renaissance, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Two treatises on alchemy.
Extent: 234 leaves : paper ; 247 x 150 (180 x 115) mm bound to 249 x 169 mm
Language: Arabic
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title of each work from the introduction to that work (f. 1v, 196r)., Table of contents: 1. f.1r-196v: Fawāʼid al-ḥabīb / ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad, known as Ibn al-Bahāʼ, Table of contents: 2. f.196r-235v: Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ / Aḥmad ibn Saʻd Allāh al-Hāshimī, Foliation: Paper, i (modern) + 234 + i (modern); 2 generations of later ink foliation, 1-235, with each skipping one number in the last 10 leaves, upper left and upper center recto, some foliation trimmed., Layout: Written in 25 long lines., Script: Written in naskh by ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī (medallion inscription, f. 1r)., Decoration: Illuminated medallion and headpiece in blue and gold (f. 1r); 2 simple diagrams in red ink (f. 51r); rubrications, including marginal finding aids, in red and brown; later overlining and marginal notes in blue pencil., Binding: 19th-century morocco with flap and stamped medallion on covers., Origin: Probably written in Egypt, ca. 1400, based on the paper., Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., Arabic.
Relation: 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-p3bg2hb1v, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs455.html
Subject: Alchemy -- Early works to 1800, Alchemy
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 455
Provenance: Ownership seals and inscriptions (f. 1r): Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak al-Fayz̤ī (1584); Muḥammad Sharīf Khān (1594-1595); Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan (1598); ʻInāyat Allāh Shīrāzī (1607-1608); and ʻAbd al-Haqq al-Shīrāzī, Amanat Khan (1632-1633)., Sold at auction at Christie's, 14 Oct. 2003, lot 25, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016., Fayz̤ī, Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak, 1547 or 1548-1595, former owner., Khān, Sharīf, 1725?-1805 or 1806, former owner., Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605, former owner., Shīrāzī, ʻInāyat Allāh, former owner., Shīrāzī, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq, former owner., Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9951482483503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3bg2hb1v/manifest

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DS ID:: DS692
Shelfmark:: LJS 455
Title:: Fawāʼid al-ḥabīb. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ / فوائد الحبيب. زنجار الحكماء

Fawāʼid al-ḥabīb. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ
Author:: Ibn al-Bahāʼ, Abu ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad / ابن البهاء، ابو عبد الله محمد

Abu ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Bahāʼ WIKIDATA
Scribe:: Anṣārī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh / انصاري، علي بن عبد الله، ǂe scribe

ʻAlī ibn ʻAbdallah Anṣārī WIKIDATA
Place:: Egypt?

Egypt TGN
Date:: 1400?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT
Language:: Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA
Material:: paper

Paper AAT
Physical Description:: Extent: 234 leaves : paper ; 247 x 150 (180 x 115) mm bound to 249 x 169 mm
Former Owner(s):: Fayz̤ī, Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak, 1547 or 1548-1595 / فيضى، ابو الفيض بن مبارک، 1547 يا 1548-1595،

Faizi WIKIDATA
Khān, Sharīf, 1725?-1805 or 1806 / محمد شريف خان, 1725?-1805 or 1806

Sharīf Khān WIKIDATA
Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605

Akbar WIKIDATA
Shīrāzī, ʻInāyat Allāh / شيرازي، عاناية الله

ʻInāyat Allāh Shīrāzī WIKIDATA
Shīrāzī, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq / شيرازي، عبد الحق

ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Shīrāzī WIKIDATA
Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA
Note:: Ms. codex.
Title of each work from the introduction to that work (f. 1v, 196r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern) + 234 + i (modern); 2 generations of later ink foliation, 1-235, with each skipping one number in the last 10 leaves, upper left and upper center recto, some foliation trimmed.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh by ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī (medallion inscription, f. 1r).
Decoration: Illuminated medallion and headpiece in blue and gold (f. 1r); 2 simple diagrams in red ink (f. 51r); rubrications, including marginal finding aids, in red and brown; later overlining and marginal notes in blue pencil.
Binding: 19th-century morocco with flap and stamped medallion on covers.
Origin: Probably written in Egypt, ca. 1400, based on the paper.
Ownership seals and inscriptions (f. 1r): Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak al-Fayz̤ī (1584); Muḥammad Sharīf Khān (1594-1595); Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan (1598); ʻInāyat Allāh Shīrāzī (1607-1608); and ʻAbd al-Haqq al-Shīrāzī, Amanat Khan (1632-1633).
Sold at auction at Christie's, 14 Oct. 2003, lot 25, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Keyword:: Manuscripts, Arabic

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Alchemy

Early works
Institutional Record:: https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9951482483503681
IIIF Manifest:: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3bg2hb1v/manifest
Holding Institution:: University of Pennsylvania

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