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Laṭāʼif al-kalām fī aḥkām al-aʻwām.
لطائف الكلام في احكام الاعوام.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 466
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad, active 14th century-15th century, author.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Persian.
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 15th century.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- diagrams
- tables (documents)
- treatises
- compilation manuscripts
- Stamps (Provenance)
- Annotations (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Muḥammad Dhará, the timekeeper at the mosque of Sulṭān Muḥammad Khān (note in ink, f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, 1790? (stamp, f. 1r).
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2024.
- Physical Description:
- 103 leaves : paper ; 162 x 125 (125 x 75-85) mm bound to 162 x 130 mm + 2 notes
- Production:
- A.H. 852 (1448)
- Other Title:
- رسالة فيها ملحة من معرفة سميت المقبلة.
- Language Note:
- Persian and Arabic.
- Summary:
- Two treatises on astrology bound together.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from introduction (f. 1v).
- Foliation: Paper, i + 103 + i; 1-95, [96-103], later foliation in ink, upper left recto, end of manuscript (f. 96-103) not foliated.
- Layout: Written in 15 (f. 1v-95r) and 19-20 (f. 96v-100v) long lines.
- Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, by at least 2 hands (f. 1v-95r, 96v-103r).
- Decoration: 7 astronomical diagrams (f. 97r-101r) in red and black ink; 2 of another type of diagram in red and black ink (f. 82r, 83r); tables in red and black ink (f. 83v-84v, 101v-103r); rubrications and overlining in red.
- Binding: Light brown leather over pasteboard with marbled paper sides.
- Origin: First text dated 11 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 852 A.H. (June 1448 CE) (f. 95r); the second work is undated.
- Ownership stamps and inscriptions (f. 1r).
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 72 (LJS 466).
- Cited as:
- Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī, Laṭāʼif al-kalām fī aḥkām al-aʻwām (LJS 466). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- Contains:
- Risālah fīhā mulḥah min maʻrifah sumīyat al-muqbilah.
- رسالة فيها ملحة من معرفة سميت المقبلة.
- OCLC:
- 122647491
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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