University of Pennsylvania, LJS 409

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DS ID:

DS656

Shelfmark:

LJS 409

Title:

Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān. Īḍāḥ al-rumūz fī al-burhān / كتاب الكشف والبيان. ايضاح الرموز في البرهان

Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān. Īḍāḥ al-rumūz fī al-burhān

Date:

between 1600 and 1799?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 9 leaves : paper ; 152 x 105 mm bound to 157 x 109 mm

Former Owner(s):

Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (p. 349).
Collation: Paper, i (later paper) + 9 + i (later paper); 19; 348-365, pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 20-27 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh in black and red; pointed.
Decoration: Drawing in red and black ink of laboratory equipment, including mortar and pestle, furnace, and glass containers (f. 9v); rubrications in red.
Binding: Cracked brown leather folder.
Origin: The item is undated; possibly copied in the 16th or 17th century.
Ownership stamp (f. 9v).
Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Early works

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts

Seventeenth century

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Eighteenth century

Islamic magic

Alchemy

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9957840863503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3md3v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania