University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 137

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DS ID:

DS752

Shelfmark:

CAJS Rar Ms 137

Title:

Kitāb Rawḍ al-rayāḥīn fī ḥikāyāt al-ṣāliḥīn,

Author:

Yāfiʻī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad, -1367 / يافعي، عبد الله بن أسعد، و. 1367

Abdullah bin Asaad Al-Yafi'i WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Ḥafiz al-Shirāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Rajab ibn ʻUmar / حافظ الشرازي، محمود بن رجب بن عمر

Maḥmūd ibn Rajab ibn ʻUmar Ḥafiz al-Shirāzī WIKIDATA

Place:

A.H. 804 (1402)

Date:

1402.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 137 leaves : paper ; 257 x 160 (195 x 105) mm bound to 261 x 187 mm

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning WIKIDATA

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Note:

Ms. codex.
Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
Binding: Full red leather with fore-edge flap and envelope flap (Type II), rebacked; envelope flap gilt-tooled; evidence of gilt-tooling on upper board; marbled endpapers.
Without title leaf. Copy has occasional ink smudges throughout; f. 1 mended at inner margin; lower portion of f. 1 cut off and replaced with a blank leaf; f. 129 mended at tail, inner and outer margins; top portion of f. 129 torn of and replaced with a blank leaf with some loss of text; lower portion of f. 137 torn off and replaced with a blank leaf with some loss of text on recto (some of...
Origin: Copy completed on 10th day of Ṣafr in the year A.H. 804 (1402 CE) by Maḥmūd ibn Rajab ibn ʻUmar al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Shirāzī (f. 137v).
Title from colophon.
Foliation: Paper, i + 137; 1-137; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 33 lines per page in black and red ink, with poetry in two columns (35-45 mm. in width) and marginalia.
Script: Written in a very legible naskh in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red and in larger black.
Ms. note in pencil regarding subject of volume and ms. shelf mark on recto of front flyleaf; ms. note ("Histoire et chefs d'oeuvres des grandes personnages arabes") on verso of front flyleaf; occasional ms. annotations throughout text.
Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (armorial bookplate, inside front cover).
Formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.

Keyword:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Envelope flaps (features)

Manuscripts, 15th century

Biographies

Muslims--Biography

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944235503503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3pg1hp9x/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania