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Kitāb Alghāz fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah.
كتاب الغاز في اللغة العربية.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize LJS 486
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Riddles, Arabic.
- Riddles, Arabic--Early works to 1800.
- Arabic poetry--622-750.
- Arabic poetry.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- riddles (documents)
- Annotations (Provenance)
- Stamps (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Sayyid Maḥmūd bin Nāṣir (inscription in Maghribī hand recording purchase in Egypt in A.H. 1076 (1665-1666), f. 3r.
- Formerly in the library of the al-Zāwiyah al-Nāṣiriyah at Tamegroute, Morocco, founded by the Bin Nāṣir family in the 17th century (stamped seals, f. 2r, 3r).
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jul. 2007.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
- Physical Description:
- 93 leaves : paper ; 280 x 180 (196 x 115) mm bound to 280 x 184 mm
- Production:
- [Egypt], A.H. 720 (1320)
- Other Title:
- Alghāz fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah
- الغاز في اللغة العربية
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Compilation of riddles drawn from early Islamic and pre-Islamic poetry, arranged in alphabetical order by their answers.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 3r).
- Collation: Paper, 93; 1¹⁴ 2⁶ 3¹⁴ 4⁶ 5¹⁴ 6⁶ 7¹⁴ 8⁶ 9¹⁴( -1); [1-93], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
- Layout: Written in up to 29 long lines. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, with headings in thuluth.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red; puzzles in decorative layouts added in ink on front flyleaf by a later hand (f. 1r).
- Binding: Light brown leather, blind-stamped with central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis, rebacked.
- Origin: Likely copied in Egypt, dated A.H. 17 Rajab 720 (August 1320 CE) (f. 92v and inscription on title page, f. 3r).
- Notations on front flyleaf, including an owner's note? dated 994 A.H. (1586 CE).
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited as:
- Oversize UPenn LJS 486.
- OCLC:
- 806088024
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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