Author
Ibn al-Bahāʼ, Abu ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad.
Publication Date
1400
Subject
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Alchemy.
Type
Document
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
234 leaves : paper ; 247 x 150 (180 x 115) mm bound to 249 x 169 mm
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
756864181
Record ID
9951482483503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1400
Notes
Ms. codex., Title of each work from the introduction to that work (f. 1v, 196r)., Foliation: Paper, i (modern) + 234 + i (modern); 2 generations of later ink foliation, 1-235, with each skipping one number in the last 10 leaves, upper left and upper center recto, some foliation trimmed., Layout: Written in 25 long lines., Script: Written in naskh by ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī (medallion inscription, f. 1r)., Decoration: Illuminated medallion and headpiece in blue and gold (f. 1r); 2 simple diagrams in red ink (f. 51r); rubrications, including marginal finding aids, in red and brown; later overlining and marginal notes in blue pencil., Binding: 19th-century morocco with flap and stamped medallion on covers., Origin: Probably written in Egypt, ca. 1400, based on the paper. | Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative. | Arabic. | Ownership seals and inscriptions (f. 1r): Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak al-Fayz̤ī (1584); Muḥammad Sharīf Khān (1594-1595); Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan (1598); ʻInāyat Allāh Shīrāzī (1607-1608); and ʻAbd al-Haqq al-Shīrāzī, Amanat Khan (1632-1633)., Sold at auction at Christie's, 14 Oct. 2003, lot 25, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Sample Text
Two treatises on alchemy.
Atıf Şekli
UPenn LJS 455.
Atıf Yapılan
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 110 (LJS 455).
İçerik
Hāshimī, Aḥmad ibn Saʻd Allāh. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ., هاشمي، احمد بن سعد الله. ǂt زنجار الحكماء.
Tür
codices (bound manuscripts), treatises, Manuscripts, Arabic., Manuscripts, Renaissance.