University of Pennsylvania, LJS 455

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DS ID:

DS692

Shelfmark:

LJS 455

Title:

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

Physical Description:

Extent: 234 leaves : paper ; 247 x 150 (180 x 115) mm bound to 249 x 169 mm

Former Owner(s):

Shīrāzī, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq / شيرازي، عبد الحق

ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Shīrāzī WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg 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

Fayz̤ī, Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak, 1547 or 1548-1595 / فيضى، ابو الفيض بن مبارک، 1547 يا 1548-1595،

Faizi WIKIDATA

Shīrāzī, ʻInāyat Allāh / شيرازي، عاناية الله

ʻInāyat Allāh Shīrāzī WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: 19th-century morocco with flap and stamped medallion on covers.
Origin: Probably written in Egypt, ca. 1400, based on the paper.
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.
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.
Title of each work from the introduction to that work (f. 1v, 196r).
Script: Written in naskh by ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī (medallion inscription, f. 1r).
Layout: Written in 25 long lines.
Ms. codex.
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.
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).

Keyword:

treatises

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Early works

Alchemy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9951482483503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3bg2hb1v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania