University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 486
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS721
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 486
- Title:
- Kitāb Alghāz fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah.
- Place:
- Egypt
- Date:
- A.H. 720 (1320)
- Language:
- Arabic
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 93 leaves : paper ; 280 x 180 (196 x 115) mm bound to 280 x 184 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Maḥmūd bin Nāṣir, active 1665 / محمود بن ناصر، active 1665،
Zāwiyah al-Nāṣiriyah
- Note:
- Decoration: Rubrications in red; puzzles in decorative layouts added in ink on front flyleaf by a later hand (f. 1r).
Notations on front flyleaf, including an owner's note? dated 994 A.H. (1586 CE).
Origin: Likely copied in Egypt, dated A.H. 17 Rajab 720 (August 1320 CE) (f. 92v and inscription on title page, f. 3r).
Binding: Light brown leather, blind-stamped with central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis, rebacked.
Title from title page (f. 3r).
Collation: Paper, 93; 1¹⁴ 2⁶ 3¹⁴ 4⁶ 5¹⁴ 6⁶ 7¹⁴ 8⁶ 9¹⁴( -1); [1-93], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in up to 29 long lines. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, with headings in thuluth.
Ms. codex.
Formerly owned by Sayyid Maḥmūd bin Nāṣir (inscription in Maghribī hand recording purchase in Egypt in A.H. 1076 (1665-1666), f. 3r.
Formerly in the library of the al-Zāwiyah al-Nāṣiriyah at Tamegroute, Morocco, founded by the Bin Nāṣir family in the 17th century (stamped seals, f. 2r, 3r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jul. 2007.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958092633503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3xp6v415/manifest
- Holding Institution:
