Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Foliation: Paper, i + 268 + v ; [1-7], 8-12, [13-14], 15-29, [30-31], 32-33, [34], 35-36, [37], 38, [39-49], 50-55, [56-59], 60-63, [64-67], 68, [69-87], 88, [89-99], 100-112, 115-200, [i], 200-246, 246-267; Added foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, in at least three hands, upper left recto. Layout: Written in 15 long lines (f. 1r-79v) and 17 long lines (f. 80r-267v). Script: Written in naskh with a not very oblique cut pen, with chapter headings in larger muḥaqqaq script. Decoration: Schematic world map in green, yellow, red, and black, across a full opening (f. 3v-4r), showing Europe, Africa and the Nile, and Asia; diagram in red and black of directions of prayer toward Mecca with the Kaʻbah in the center (f. 66r); diagram in red and black of chess game (f. 264r); some words in red, red dots marking ends of sentences. Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla and frame with repeating geometric pattern, gold tooling around the mandorla and gold tooled square designs on fore-edge hinge flap; scalloped edge doublures. Origin: The item is undated, though it was possibly produced in the mid-to-late 15th or early 16th century. The colophon has been partially pasted over. A patron or scribe's name is partially visible: al-Shaykh Shams al-Dīn [...] Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Barlis... [...] al-Karīm bi-al-Qurāqī (f. 267v). Ownership inscription dated 1090/1679 (inside lower cover); later inscriptions in a maghribi hand including the name Ibn al-Maʼmūn (inside upper cover); sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, December 2009. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013. Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
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