Details

Standardized Title:

Sharḥ al-Jaghmīnī
شرح الجغميني http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00072201

Subjects:

Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, -1221? Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah (Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad).

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 17th century.
Manuscripts, 18th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Early works.
Codices.

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

Commentary on Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī's Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah with a few marginal notes; first page is a later replacement.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (f. 92v).
Foliation: Paper, ii + 90 + ii; [1-94], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto, including flyleaves.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh with elements of ruqʻah.
Decoration: 23 simple diagrams in red, red and blue, or red and black (f. 15r, 18v, 22v, 25v, 39r, 43r, 43v, 45r, 46r, 46v, 47v, 48r, 50v, 63r-64r, 70r, 77r-77v, 80r-80v, 83v, 85v); overlining in red and black; selected words and phrases in red.
Binding: Modern leather with inset stamped central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis.
Origin: The copy was completed by Muḥammad ʻĀbid (f. 92v), and is undated, though probably copied in the 17th or 18th century. A date of 900 (A.H.) was likely added later; it is in a different ink that is similar to the ink used for the replacement page at the beginning.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bouwman Oriental Books (Groenekan, Netherlands) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 28 Mar. 2005.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 56-57 (LJS 474).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 474.

Contributor:

Muḥammad ʻĀbid, scribe.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
محمد عابد، scribe.

OCLC:

122621540

Web link:

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