University of Pennsylvania, LJS 467

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS703

Shelfmark:

LJS 467

Title:

Hādhā min Khawāṣs al-manāzil wa-hiya fī al-maghrib anwāʼ.

Place:

North Africa

North Africa TGN

Date:

[13--?-15--?]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 23 leaves : paper ; 200 x 122 (170 x 86) mm bound to 200 x 130 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Pagination: Paper, i + 23 + i; [231-276], modern pagination in blue ink (the same ink used for modern inscriptions and calculations inside the lower cover), upper outer corners or upper center.
Origin: Item is undated, probably written in northern Africa or Spain.
Binding: Later morocco, blind-tooled with central mandorla and double frame with knotted rope design in the outer frame, spine repaired.
Watermark: Bunch of small, symmetrical grapes, upper center of some sheets.
Title from caption title (f. 1v).
Script: Written in maghribi in brown ink; pointed, additions in a second hand at the beginning of the manuscript (p. 1).
Layout: Written in 24-28 long lines; margins marked by folding or misṭarah.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Keyword:

Early works

Manuscripts, Arabic

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

Weather forecasting

Astronomy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9951853553503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p38w73/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania