Author
Author: Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, -1457 | Author: Ibn al-Wardi, Siraj al-Din Abu Hafs Omar,
Author Original
مؤلف مؤلف ابن الوردي، سراج الدين ابو حفص عمر،
Publication Date
The item is undated, though it was possibly produced in the mid-to-late 15th or early 16th century. The colophon has been partially pasted over.
Publication Place
-
University of Pennsylvania
Subject
LCSH: Cosmography--Early works to 1800 | LCSH: Chess--Early works to 1800 | LCSH: Chess | LCSH: Cosmography | Form/genre: Manuscripts, Arabic | Form/genre: Manuscripts, 15th century | Form/genre: Manuscripts, 16th century | Form/genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance | Form/genre: Codices (bound manuscripts) | Form/genre: World maps | Form/genre: Diagrams | Form/genre: Annotations (Provenance) | Form/genre: Early works | more | less
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
268
Physical Dimensions
268 leaves : 195 x 134 (146 x 85) mm bound to 195 x 160 mm
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Library Asset ID
9946508843503681 | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/837237662 | http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4650884
Record ID
aub-LJS%20495
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania
Date
The item is undated, though it was possibly produced in the mid-to-late 15th or early 16th century. The colophon has been partially pasted over.
Notes
ملزم: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla and frame with repeating geometric pattern, gold tooling around the mandorla and gold tooled square designs on fore-edge hinge flap; scalloped edge doublures. | ملاحظة الديكور: Schematic world map in green, yellow, red, and black, across a full opening (f. 3v-4r), showing Europe, Africa and the Nile, and Asia; diagram in red and black of directions of prayer toward Mecca with the Kaʻbah in the center (f. 66r); diagram in red and black of chess game (f. 264r); some words in red, red dots marking ends of sentences. | ملاحظة الديكور: World map, f. 3v | ملاحظة الديكور: World map, f. 4r | ملاحظة الديكور: Diagram, f. 66r | ملاحظة الديكور: Chess diagram, f. 264r [=265r] | ترقيم الأوراق: Paper, i + 268 + v ; [1-7], 8-12, [13-14], 15-29, [30-31], 32-33, [34], 35-36, [37], 38, [39-49], 50-55, [56-59], 60-63, [64-67], 68, [69-87], 88, [89-99], 100-112, 115-200, [i], 200-246, 246-267; Added foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, in at least three hands, upper left recto. | تَخطِيط: Written in 15 long lines (f. 1r-79v) and 17 long lines (f. 80r-267v). | ملحوظة: Ms. codex. | ملحوظة: Title supplied by cataloger. | ملحوظة: A patron or scribe's name is partially visible: al-Shaykh Shams al-Dīn [...] Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Barlis... [...] al-Karīm bi-al-Qurāqī (f. 267v). | ملاحظة البرنامج النصي: Written in naskh with a not very oblique cut pen, with chapter headings in larger muḥaqqaq script. | ملخص: Cosmography containing a compendium of place names, seas, and mountains; information on flora and fauna; and a brief explanation of the game of chess. This text has also been attributed to the 14th-century author Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Wardī. | more | less
Parçası Olduğu
OPenn Manuscripts of the Muslim World: | https://openn.library.upenn.edu/html/muslimworld_contents.html
