Details

Other Title:

Khawāṣs al-manāzil wa-hiya fī al-maghrib anwāʼ
Title from colophon: Khawāṣs al-manāzil wa-al-shuhūr.
خواص المنازل وهي في المغرب انواء
Title from colophon: خواص المنازل والشهور.

Subjects:

Weather forecasting.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Weather forecasting -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Early works.

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

Work on the use of astronomical observations to predict weather changes in order to determine the best times to sow and harvest in northern Africa. The text is divided into 12 chapters describing weather variations for each of the 12 months, using their European names.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1v).
Pagination: Paper, i + 23 + i; [231-276], modern pagination in blue ink (the same ink used for modern inscriptions and calculations inside the lower cover), upper outer corners or upper center.
Layout: Written in 24-28 long lines; margins marked by folding or misṭarah.
Script: Written in maghribi in brown ink; pointed, additions in a second hand at the beginning of the manuscript (p. 1).
Watermark: Bunch of small, symmetrical grapes, upper center of some sheets.
Binding: Later morocco, blind-tooled with central mandorla and double frame with knotted rope design in the outer frame, spine repaired.
Origin: Item is undated, probably written in northern Africa or Spain.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

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, 2019.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 127 (LJS 467).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 467.

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

122470321

Web link:

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