University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 478
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS715
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 478
- Title:
- Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb / كتاب في استيعاب الوجوه الممكنة في صنعة الاسطرلاب
- Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048 / بيروني، محمد بن احمد، 973?-1048
- Date:
- A.H. 625 (1228)
- Language:
- Arabic
- Material:
- paper, color illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i, 86, i leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 252 x 171 (190 x 124) mm bound to 252 x 178 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i + 87 + i; [1-87]; some irregular foliation in ink, upper right verso.
Layout: Written in 21-24 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partially pointed.
Decoration: Numerous diagrams in red ink; rubrications in red.
Binding: 13th-century leather, blind-stamped, with replacement flap.
Origin: Copy compled in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228) (f. 66r, 86v).
Paper: Laid paper chain lines occasionally visible in sets of two.
Given as a pious endowment (waqf) in 1292 A.H. (note in Persian in ink, f. 1r); several other notes and stamps (f. 1r, 75r), one dated 1120 A.H. (f. 86v).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Apr. 2006.
Displayed by Sam Fogg Ltd. in Ink and Gold: Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, July-Aug. 2006.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949213493503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3c81j/manifest
- Holding Institution:
