Bahjat al-manāzil.
بهجة المنازل.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Darwīsh, Muḥammad Adīb ibn Muḥammad.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Contributor:

Kānkash, Ḥ̣usayn Ḥāmid ibn ʻAbd Allāh, scribe.

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, donor, former owner.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

كانكش، حسين حامد بن عبد الله.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Mecca.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Saudi Arabia--Mecca.

Islam--Customs and practices.

Islam.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (armorial bookplate, front pastedown).

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on bookplate).

Physical Description:

i, 172, i leaves : paper, illuminations ; 229 x 139 (216 x 114) mm with 5 leaves 228 x 161 mm (unfolded) bound to 230 x 144 mm

Production:

A.H. 1221 (1806)

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Description of practices and observances during the Hajj. Descriptions of the places and inns on the way to Mecca. Closes with a list of places and their distance from Mecca. Notes and marginal comments in the same hand.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from introduction (f. 1v)

Foliation: Foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in red ink, upper left recto [(viii), 1-163, (i)]. Without catchwords.

Layout: Written in 25 lines per page in black and red ink with marginalia; main text border-ruled in ink and gilt with text rules in blind; margins frame-ruled in blind; section headings framed in ink and gilt; some section ends within triangular frames of ink and gilt. Five leaves folded (f. 77, 93, 109, 163-[164]).

Script: Written in clear nastaʻliq; pointed.

Decoration: Illuminated headpiece chiefly gold with red, blue, and orange (f. 1v). Rubrications in red.

Binding: Bound in original full green leather tooled in gold; gold-tooled fore-edge and envelope flaps (Type II). Housed in a damaged paper case covered in red leather with head-edge flap and envelope flap; panels of marbled paper pasted to front and back of case; head-edge flap lined with green cloth; envelope flap covered in marbled paper; teal cloth pull with red leather end-tab attached to interior of case; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine of case.

Origin: Completed at the end of the month of Jumādá al-Ākhirah in the year A.H. 1221 by Ḥ̣usayn Ḥāmid ibn ʻAbd Allāh, known as Kānkash (f. 163r).

Copy has ms. note ("Not Arabic Turkish") in pencil on front pastedown; ms. shelf marks in pencil and blue and black ink (f. [i] recto). Bookseller's printed description affixed to front pastedown.

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 139.

OCLC:

276878175