Kitāb al-Majisṭī (DS156) (Q649)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9950583033503681, Oversize LJS 268, https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9950583033503681)
  • Almagest.
  • كتاب المجسطي.
  • Almagest
  • كتاب المجسطي
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Kitāb al-Majisṭī (DS156)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9950583033503681, Oversize LJS 268, https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9950583033503681)
  • Almagest.
  • كتاب المجسطي.
  • Almagest
  • كتاب المجسطي
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    23 December 2022
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    Kitāb al-Majisṭī
    كتاب المجسطي
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    Almagest
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    Ptolemy, active 2nd century
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    Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Luṭf Allāh
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    Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn ʻAbd al-Kabīr al-Kinānī al-Ḥasanī
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    Annotations (Provenance)
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    Early works to 1800
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    Astronomy--Early works to 1800
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    Extent: i, 174, i leaves : paper ; 280 x 215 (220 x 145) mm bound to 280 x 225 mm
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    Ms. codex.
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    Title from title page (f. 1r).
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    Foliation: Paper, 174; [1-37, 50-101, 124-145, 145-152, 101-124, 154-185]; modern foliation in pencil, correcting previous foliation in pencil, lower center recto.
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    Layout: Written in 36 long lines.
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    Script: Written in maghribī script by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Salāmah al- Sinhājī al-Muhājirī?, an astronomer (colophon, f. 185r).
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    Decoration: Diagrams, tables, titles, headings, and selected words in red throughout.
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    Watermark: Similar to Piccard, Axe, no. 788 (Florence, 1379).
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    Binding: Red leather with flap (Type II); blind-stamped central mandorla and double frame of straight rules; gold-tooled around the central stamp and small, gilt-stamped corner decorations; plain paper doublure.
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    Origin: Copied in Saragossa [Sarqusṭah] Spain in Jumādá al-Ākhirah A.H. 783 (September 1381 CE) for Ibn al-Qursunuh al-Isrāʼīlī, astronomer to Pedro IV of Aragon (colophon, f. 185r).
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    Many edges and corners of leaves mended with paper.
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    Formerly owned by Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Luṭf Allāh, Muḥammad al-Raʼīs and Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn ʻAbd al-Kabīr al-Kinānī al-Ḥasanī (series of notes, f. 1r).
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    Formerly owned by Imam Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Lutfullāh, Muḥammad al-Raʼīs and Imam Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Kathīr al-Kinānī (note by Misjo Rinijo or Misiyo Riniyo, probably Monsieur Regnault, a French ambassador, note dated 1922, f. 1v).
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    Offered in A.H. 1330/1912 (‘547 〈lunar〉 years after the date of copying’) by ‘the Sharīf’, probably Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥayy b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kittānī al-Ḥasanī, an Idrīsī sharīf, as a present to Eugène Regnault (d. 1933), French plenipotentiary minister in Tangier, probably on the signature of the Treaty of Fez (30 March 1912) as a result of which Morocco became a French protectorate, or on...
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    Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1998.
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    Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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    Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
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    28 April 2025
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