Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kitāb Alghāz fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah.
كتاب الغاز في اللغة العربية

Other related names

• Maḥmūd bin Nāṣir, active 1665, former owner
  محمود بن ناصر،
• Zāwiyah al-Nāṣiriyah, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 486
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958092633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/806088024
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs486.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5809263

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 720 (1320)

Place

Egypt

Summary

Compilation of riddles drawn from early Islamic and pre-Islamic poetry, arranged in alphabetical order by their answers.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 3r).
   
• Notations on front flyleaf, including an owner's note? dated 994 A.H. (1586 CE).
   

Extent

93 leaves : 280 x 180 (196 x 115) mm bound to 280 x 184 mm

Collation

Paper, 93; 1¹⁴ 2⁶ 3¹⁴ 4⁶ 5¹⁴ 6⁶ 7¹⁴ 8⁶ 9¹⁴( -1); [1-93], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Light brown leather, blind-stamped with central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis, rebacked.

Layout

Written in up to 29 long lines. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; puzzles in decorative layouts added in ink on front flyleaf by a later hand (f. 1r).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, with headings in thuluth.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sayyid Maḥmūd bin Nāṣir (inscription in Maghribī hand recording purchase in Egypt in A.H. 1076 (1665-1666), f. 3r.
   
• Formerly in the library of the al-Zāwiyah al-Nāṣiriyah at Tamegroute, Morocco, founded by the Bin Nāṣir family in the 17th century (stamped seals, f. 2r, 3r).
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jul. 2007.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Riddles, Arabic--Early works to 1800
• Arabic poetry--622-750

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Riddles (document genres)
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Puzzles, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Stamp, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Stamps, f. 3r
• fol. 8r — Stamp, f. 8r