University of Pennsylvania, LJS 495

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DS ID:

DS729

Shelfmark:

LJS 495

Title:

Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīḍat al-gharāʼib.

Author:

Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, -1457 / ابن الوردي، سراج الدين ابو حفص عمر، -1457

Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar Ibn al-Wardī WIKIDATA

Date:

[between 1450 and 1550?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 268 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 195 x 134 (146 x 85) mm bound to 195 x 160 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

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.
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).
Ms. codex.
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.
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.
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.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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.

Keyword:

world maps

Early works

Manuscripts, Arabic

Annotations

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

Cosmography

Chess

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9946508843503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3ns0kz4b/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania