Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīḍat al-gharāʼib. (DS729) (Q3915)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9946508843503681, LJS 495)
  • خريدة العجائب و فريضة الغرائب.
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Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīḍat al-gharāʼib. (DS729)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9946508843503681, LJS 495)
  • خريدة العجائب و فريضة الغرائب.

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Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīḍat al-gharāʼib.
خريدة العجائب و فريضة الغرائب.
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Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, -1457
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Annotations (Provenance)
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Chess--Early works to 1800
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Cosmography--Early works to 1800
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Early works to 1800
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Extent: 268 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 195 x 134 (146 x 85) mm bound to 195 x 160 mm
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paper, color illustrations
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Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla and frame with repeating geometric pattern, gold tooling around the mandorla and gold tooled square designs on fore-edge hinge flap; scalloped edge doublures.
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A patron or scribe's name is partially visible: al-Shaykh Shams al-Dīn [...] Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Barlis... [...] al-Karīm bi-al-Qurāqī (f. 267v).
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Ms. codex.
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Origin: The item is undated, though it was possibly produced in the mid-to-late 15th or early 16th century. The colophon has been partially pasted over.
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Decoration: Schematic world map in green, yellow, red, and black, across a full opening (f. 3v-4r), showing Europe, Africa and the Nile, and Asia; diagram in red and black of directions of prayer toward Mecca with the Kaʻbah in the center (f. 66r); diagram in red and black of chess game (f. 264r); some words in red, red dots marking ends of sentences.
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Foliation: Paper, i + 268 + v ; [1-7], 8-12, [13-14], 15-29, [30-31], 32-33, [34], 35-36, [37], 38, [39-49], 50-55, [56-59], 60-63, [64-67], 68, [69-87], 88, [89-99], 100-112, 115-200, [i], 200-246, 246-267; Added foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, in at least three hands, upper left recto.
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Layout: Written in 15 long lines (f. 1r-79v) and 17 long lines (f. 80r-267v).
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Script: Written in naskh with a not very oblique cut pen, with chapter headings in larger muḥaqqaq script.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Ownership inscription dated 1090/1679 (inside lower cover); later inscriptions in a maghribi hand including the name Ibn al-Maʼmūn (inside upper cover); sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, December 2009.
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Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
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Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
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27 August 2023
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27 August 2023
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