Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Mughnī al-labīb.
مغني اللبيب

Authors

• Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360
  ابن هشام، عبد الله بن يوسف

Other related names

• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, donor
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 159
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968531423503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/954274745
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6853142 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms159.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1599?

Summary

Copy of a work on grammar; neatly written. A few pages at the beginning and end have had the edges restored, obscuring some text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from added title (f. 1r).
   
• A damaged leaf containing text and marginal notes from an unrelated manuscript is laid in.
   
• Item cataloged from digitized facsimile and existing description.
   

Extent

175 leaves : 245 x 170 (175 x 100) mm bound to 245 x 180 mm +

Collation

Paper, 175; 1¹⁰ 2⁴ 3¹² 4⁴ 5¹² 6⁴ 7¹² 8⁴ 9¹² 10⁴ 11¹² 12-21⁸ 22⁶ (-i); [i, 1-175], foliation in modern pencil, upper center recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); rebacked with red spine and edges; blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis.

Layout

Written in 26 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh script; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate inside front cover), possibly in 1912 (pencil note, first flyleaf recto).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Arabic language--Syntax
• Arabic language--Grammar
• Arabic language--Grammar
• Arabic language--Syntax

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Marginalia (annotations)

Licenses

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