University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 478
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS715
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 478
- Title:
- Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb.
- Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048 / بيروني، محمد بن احمد، 973?-1048
- Date:
- A.H. 625 (1228)
- Language:
- Arabic
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i, 86, i leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 252 x 171 (190 x 124) mm bound to 252 x 178 mm
- Note:
- Given as a pious endowment (waqf) in 1292 A.H. (note in Persian in ink, f. 1r); several other notes and stamps (f. 1r, 75r), one dated 1120 A.H. (f. 86v).
Paper: Laid paper chain lines occasionally visible in sets of two.
Ms. codex.
Origin: Copy compled in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228) (f. 66r, 86v).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: 13th-century leather, blind-stamped, with replacement flap.
Foliation: Paper, i + 87 + i; [1-87]; some irregular foliation in ink, upper right verso.
Decoration: Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.
Layout: Written in 21-24 long lines.
Displayed by Sam Fogg Ltd. in Ink and Gold: Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, July-Aug. 2006.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Apr. 2006.
Displayed by Sam Fogg Ltd. in Ink and Gold: Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, July-Aug. 2006. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949213493503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3c81j/manifest
- Holding Institution:
