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Title

Kitāb al-Shifā bi-taʻrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá.
كتاب الشفا بتعريف حقوق المصطفى

Authors

• ʻIyāḍ ibn Mūsá, 1083-1149
  عاياض بن موسى،

Other related names

• Saʻūdī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, scribe
  سعودي، محمد بن احمد بن محمد.
• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, former owner
• Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 126
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968529583503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/954274738
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6852958 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms126.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 831 (1428)

Summary

Handbook in which the Prophet's life, qualities, and miracles are described in extensive detail.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from incipit.
   
• Stamp on f. 1r and 253v.
   
• Title page heavily damaged; considerable damage to upper outer edge.
   
• Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
   

Extent

254 leaves : 240 x 155 (185 x 105) mm bound to 240 x 165 mm

Collation

Paper, 254; 1⁸ 2¹²(-12) 3-11¹⁰ 12¹⁰(+1) 13¹⁰ 14⁴ 15¹²(-12) 16-26¹⁰ 27⁸(-7); [1-253, i], modern foliation in pencil, upper center. Catchwords on every page in ink, lower left or lower center verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II), blind-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, blind tooled frame, rebacked and flap repaired. Block stamped front doublure.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
   

Subjects topical

• Hadith--Early works to 1800
• Religious life--Islam--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Block-stamped leather
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Licenses

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