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Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn wa-īḍāḥ sabīl al-murshidīn.
تنبيه الغافلين وايضاح سبيل المرشدين.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad, -983?
- Standardized Title:
- Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn
- تنبيه الغافلين. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92032188
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Religious ethics.
- Religious ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Religious life--Islam--Early works to 1800.
- Religious life--Islam.
- Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Islamic ethics.
- Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
- Islam--Doctrines.
- Ethics.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Marcus Jastrow and Morris Jastrow, Jr.
- Accessioned, 1934.
- Physical Description:
- 142 leaves, unbound : paper ; 270 x 205 (195 x 160) mm bound to 270 x 215 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [North Africa?] : A.H. 822 (1419)
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Lacunose copy of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī's work on ethics and advice. The leaves are unbound and pages are missing, particularly from the beginning. Some pages have been rewritten in another hand and replaced.
- Notes:
- Title from introduction (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper right verso; catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: 23 long lines.
- Script: Written in maghribi in brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
- Decoration: Rubrications chiefly in red, but also in green and purple.
- Binding: The covers are brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with a blind stamped and tinted central mandorla and blind tooled frames. The flap has a coordinating blind stamped, tinted medallion. The pastedowns on the inside covers and the flap have been trimmed in a scalloped pattern along one edge. The covers are not bound to the text. Endbands in crimson and white are visible along the bottom edge of the spine.
- Origin: Copy completed on 23 Safar 822 A.H. (March 30, 1419), though that may be copied from another manuscript (f. 140v).
- Two leaves have been laid into the volume.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Oversize Ms. Codex 25.
- OCLC:
- 122545099
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