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DS ID:

DS721

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 486

Title:

Kitāb Alghāz fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah / كتاب الغاز في اللغة العربية

Kitāb Alghāz fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah

Place:

Egypt

Egypt TGN

Date:

A.H. 720 (1320)

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

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،

Maḥmūd bin Nāṣir WIKIDATA

Zāwiyah al-Nāṣiriyah

Zāwiyah al-Nāṣiriyah WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
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.
Decoration: Rubrications in red; puzzles in decorative layouts added in ink on front flyleaf by a later hand (f. 1r).
Binding: Light brown leather, blind-stamped with central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis, rebacked.
Origin: Likely copied in Egypt, dated A.H. 17 Rajab 720 (August 1320 CE) (f. 92v and inscription on title page, f. 3r).
Notations on front flyleaf, including an owner's note? dated 994 A.H. (1586 CE).
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:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Annotations

riddles (documents)

Stamps

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Arabic

Riddles, Arabic

Early works

622-750

Arabic poetry

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958092633503681

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https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3xp6v415/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania