University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 159

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DS ID:

DS757

Shelfmark:

CAJS Rar Ms 159

Title:

Mughnī al-labīb / مغني اللبيب

Mughnī al-labīb ʻan kutub al-aʻārīb

Author:

Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360 / ابن هشام، عبد الله بن يوسف

Ibn Hisham Al-Ansari WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1500 and 1599?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 175 leaves : paper ; 245 x 170 (175 x 100) mm bound to 245 x 180 mm +

Former Owner(s):

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from added title (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, 175; 110 24 312 44 512 64 712 84 912 104 1112 12-218 226 (-i); [i, 1-175], foliation in modern pencil, upper center recto.
Layout: Written in 26 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh script; pointed, partially vocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications and overlining in red ink.
Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); rebacked with red spine and edges; blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis.
Origin: The item is undated; perhaps copied in the 16th century.
A damaged leaf containing text and marginal notes from an unrelated manuscript is laid in.
Item cataloged from digitized facsimile and existing description.
Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Sixteenth century

Manuscripts, Arabic

marginalia (annotations)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Arabic language--Grammar

Arabic language--Syntax

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9968531423503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3br8mj3s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania