Jāmiʻ al-ʻulūm. = جامع العلوم.
- Publication:
- [Iran?], [between 1200 and 1399?]
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
178 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 177 x 140 (128 x 100) mm bound to 177 x 147 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for download (OPenn)
http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs404.htmlDigital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3xd0qz2q - Status/Location:
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- 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