Ḍawʼ al-sirāj.
ضوء السراج.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Faraḍī, Maḥmūd ibn Abī Bakr, 1246 or 1247-1300.

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Inheritance and succession (Islamic law).

Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 12th century. Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah.

Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad.

Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah (Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad).

Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800.

Mathematics, Arab.

Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, 14th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

diagrams

manuals (instructional materials)

tables (documents)

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jun. 2002.

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Physical Description:

123 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 179 x 127 (134-143 x 88) mm bound to 179 x 139 mm

Place of Publication:

A.H. 723-747 (1323-1347)

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

14th-century copy of a late 13th-century manual on the mathematics of the Islamic law of inheritance, in the form of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on the Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah of 12th-century legal and mathematical scholar Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Foliation: Paper, i + 123 leaves; [i, 1-123]; alternating gatherings of 10 and 6 leaves.

Layout: Written in 19 long lines.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink, mostly unpointed, by at least 2 hands (first hand, f. 1v-56v, 104v-120v; second hand, 57r-104r), with an additional leaf bound in, f. 63.

Decoration: Diagrams (f. 43v-46r, 111r-111v, 114v-117r) and tables (105r-110r, 112r-114r, 118v-120v) in red and black ink; title page text in red and black ink (f. 1r); occasional words and phrases in red ink; double frame of red ink around text block and double red lines between sections on final pages of manuscript (f. 104v-120v).

Binding: Morocco with flap (Type II), faded marbled paper overlay on covers.

Origin: Sections of the copy dated to different times, though signed by the same scribe. First section dated 10 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 723 (27 March 1323) (f. 104r), end of the book dated Rajab 724 (July 1324) (f. 118r), and the added pages after the end dated Ramaḍān 747 (December 1346-January 1347) (f. 122r). The scribe is Masʻūd ibn Qāsim ibn Aḥmad ibn Masʻūd (f. 118r) with the added nisbah al-Shīrānī [?] (f. 104r).

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. 39 (LJS 436).

Cited as:

LJS 436.

OCLC:

779856980

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page