Details

Subjects:

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Persian -- Early works to 1600.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Persian.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Persian.
Manuscripts, 13th century.
Manuscripts, 14th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams.
Tables (documents)
Early works.

Language:

Persian.

Summary:

Summary of the branches of knowledge, including the Qurʼān, ḥadīth, and history of Islam; grammar, rhetoric, and logic; medicine, anatomy, and pharmacology; gems and talismans; agriculture and veterinary science; geometry, geodesy, weight, arithmetic, and algebra; music; astronomy, astrology, and magic; theology, ethics, and political science. Marginal notes in a later hand. Pages missing at beginning and end.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from added title page (first flyleaf recto at front of book).
Foliation: Paper, ii (later paper) + 178 + ii (later paper); [1-178], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords added by a later hand.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh script in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Diagrams and tables in red and black (f. 40v, 57r, 111r-114v, 116r-116v, 132r-133v, 134v, 147v); rubrications in red.
Binding: Limp light brown leather with blind tooled frame of parallel lines; endbands in green and beige.
Origin: The item is undated; possibly copied in the 13th or 14th century.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction at Piasa (Paris) as part of his collection, 7 June 1999.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
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. 132 (LJS 404).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 404.

Contributor:

Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

795184029

Web link:

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