Awwal Wafayāt al-aʻyān wa-anbāʼ al-zamān.
اول وفيات الاعيان وانباء الزمان.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282.

Contributor:

ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, former owner.

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, former owner.

Annenberg Research Institute.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

عثمان بن محمد بن عبد الملك،, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Wafayāt al-aʻyān

وفيات الاعيان http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88282227

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Muslims.

Muslims--Biography.

Muslim scholars--Islamic Empire--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Muslim scholars.

Islamic Empire.

Genre:

Biographies.

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, 15th century.

Manuscripts, 16th century.

biographical dictionaries

codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik (note in ink, f. 1r).

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).

Physical Description:

i, 166, i leaves : paper ; 260 x 184 (205 x 115) mm bound to 256 x 182 mm

Place of Publication:

[between 1400 and 1599?]

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Copy of the first volume of Ibn Khallikan's biographical dictionary. This volume contains through the beginning of Ḥarf al-Ḍād.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper outer verso; no catchwords.

Layout: Written in 21 long lines.

Script: Written in naskh in brown ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red.

Binding: Quarter covers with flap (Type II); marbled paper sides and brown leather spine and fore-edge hinge; title on bottom edge.

Origin: Item is undated, perhaps produced in the 15th or 16th century.

Paper: Laid paper with chain lines in sets of two occasionally visible.

Several owners' notes (f. 1r)

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 130.

OCLC:

1140447440