University of Pennsylvania, LJS 459
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS696
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 459
- Title:
- Sirr al-asrār.
- Place:
- Mosul?, Iraq
- Date:
- [between 1193 and 1211]
- Language:
- Arabic
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 127 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 190 x 127 (120 x 65) mm bound to 190 x 140 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J
Nūr al-Dīn Arslān Shah / نور الدين ارسلان شاه،
- Note:
- Origin: Probably written in Mosul, Iraq, between 1193 and 1211 (reign of owner named on f. 1r).
Ms. codex.
Binding: 15th-century blind-stamped morocco with flap (Type II), different but coordinating stamps on each board and flap; repaired.
Decoration: Illuminated name and titles of Nūr al-Dīn Arslān Shah (f. 1r); bismillāh in blue ink outlined in red (f. 1v); open octagon in gold, red, and blue, with text running around the edge (f. 80r); geometric illustration in black, gold, and red (f. 108v); tables outlined in red ink with headings in red and green ink (f. 114v-117r); names of the planets in colored inks (f. 124r...
Foliation: Paper, i + 127; 1-127, later foliation ink, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in 9 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh script, with some headings in a larger naskh and some in thuluth; opening bismillāh in Early Abbasid style script (f. 1v); occasional marginal notes in a later hand.
Title from introduction (f. 1v).
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., Islamic Calligraphy catalog (2003), no. 25, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly owned by Nūr al-Dīn Arslān Shah, Turkmen ruler of Mosul, 1193-1211 (illuminated name, f. 1r). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958033443503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32b8vc5s/manifest
- Holding Institution:
