Author
Yafi'i, 'Abd Allah ibn As'ad, -1367.
Publication Date
1402
Publication Place
1402., A.H. 804 (1402) -
Subject
Muslims--Biography., Muslims--Biography--Early works to 1800.
Type
Document
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
137 leaves : paper ; 257 x 160 (195 x 105) mm bound to 261 x 187 mm
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
276876320
Record ID
9944235503503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1402
Notes
Ms. codex., 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., 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., 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)., 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., 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 which has been subsequently supplied); various leaves mended at margins; a few leaves dampstained at head margin (f. 82-88); a few leaves detached and laid in (f. 94-95)., Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description. | Arabic. | 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.
Sample Text
An introduction in two chapters followed by five hundred stories of notable and important people and a conclusion in two chapters followed by another conclusion. The text is interspersed with poems and verses by the author and others.
Tür
codices (bound manuscripts), Manuscripts, Arabic., Manuscripts, 15th century., Biographies.
