University of Pennsylvania, LJS 465
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS701
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 465
- Title:
- Didactic poem on surveying and measurement of areas (taksīr)
- Ibn Luyūn al-Tujībī, Saʻd ibn Aḥmad, 1282 or 1283-1349 or 1350 / ابن ليون التجيبي، سعد بن احمد، 1282 أو 1283-1349 أو 1350
- Place:
- Spain?
- Date:
- 13--?-14--?
- Language:
- Arabic
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 7 leaves : paper ; 198 x 142 (144 x 95) mm bound to 202 x 159 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 7 + i (modern paper).
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in dry point.
Script: Written in small, neat maghribi in brown ink; pointed.
Decoration: Small marginal geometric diagrams (f. 2v-6v); diagram annotations in red ink.
Binding: Later morocco over pasteboard binding with flap (Type II) that is too large for the textblock; blind tooled with a central mandorla and double frame, spine repaired; inscriptions inside front cover; text and tables visible on inside back cover.
Origin: Item is undated, possibly copied in Spain in the 14th or 15th century.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9959781433503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3fs33/manifest
- Holding Institution:
