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Title

Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīḍat al-gharāʼib.
[خريدة العجائب و فريضة الغرائب]

Authors

• Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, -1457
  ابن الوردي، سراج الدين ابو حفص عمر،

Other related names

• Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, -1349, attributed name
  ابن الوردي، زين الدين عمر بن المظفر،
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 495
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946508843503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/837237662
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4650884

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1550?

Summary

Cosmography containing a compendium of place names, seas, and mountains; information on flora and fauna; and a brief explanation of the game of chess. This text has also been attributed to the 14th-century author Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Wardī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 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).
   

Extent

268 leaves : 195 x 134 (146 x 85) mm bound to 195 x 160 mm

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.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines (f. 1r-79v) and 17 long lines (f. 80r-267v).

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.

Script

Written in naskh with a not very oblique cut pen, with chapter headings in larger muḥaqqaq script.

Provenance

• 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.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Cosmography--Early works to 1800
• Chess--Early works to 1800
• Chess
• Cosmography

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• World maps
• Diagrams
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Early works

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 3v — World map, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — World map, f. 4r
• fol. 66r — Diagram, f. 66r