Details

Subjects:

Arabic language -- Dictionaries.
Arabic language.

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 14th century.
Manuscripts, 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Illuminations (painting)

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

Dictionary of the Arabic language originally compiled between 1368 and 1392. Words are indexed by their last root letter and have brief definitions. Frequent marginal notes.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from introduction (f. 1v).
Layout: Written in 33-34 long lines; border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh, some headings in thuluth.
Decoration: Fully illuminated title page in polychrome and gold with floral motifs and title in central medallion (shamsa) (f. 1r); chapter headings in gold ink with illuminated panels and floral ornaments (f. 2r, for example); illuminated floral finispiece (f. 480r); significant words in red, blue, or gold ink; textblock borer-ruled in gold.
Binding: Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II), gilt-stamped center medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; leather doublure with central quatrefoil medallion and two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces all in blue and green with black filigree overlay and gold tooling. The filigree is damaged or missing on most of the ornaments.
Origin: The item is undated and the scribe is not named; possibly produced in Iran in the last 14th or early 15th centuries.
Notes and stamps of ownership on last flyleaf recto.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm al-Shakūrī in 1110 A.H. (1698 or 1699) (stamp and note, f. 21r)
Purchased by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qurrā at the end of the month of Shawwāl 1155 A.H. (December, 1742) (note, last flyleaf recto).
Given by Muḥammad Ṣābir to Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Ṣibʻah? al-Shāfiʻī and his descendents in [1]257 A.H. (1841) (waqf note and stamps f. 480v)
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), cat. 22 (July 2000), no. 63, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 142 (LJS 387).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 387.

Contributor:

Shakūrī, Ibrāhīm, active 1698, former owner.
ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qurrā, active 1742, former owner.
Ṣābir, Muḥammad, active 1841, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
شكوري، ابراهيم، active 1698، former owner.
عبد الرحمن بن القرا، active 1742، former owner.
صابر، محمد، active 1841، former owner.

OCLC:

778695063

Web link:

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