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Title

Manhaj al-ʻilm wa-al-bayān wa-nuzhat al-samʻ wa-al-aʻyān.
منهج العلم والبيان ونزهة السمع والعيان

Authors

• Ibn Kabūlakh, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá
  ابن كبولخ، محمد بن علي بن عيسى

Other related names

• Sulaymān ibn Yūsuf ibn Sulaymān, scribe
  سليمان بن يوسف بن سليمان.
• Easson, Henry, Reverend, former owner
• Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921, former owner
• Rosengarten, J. G. 1835-1921, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 43
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914696423503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122545123
• http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/codex/public/PageLevel/index.cfm?WorkID=106 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/9914696423503681

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1268 (1852)

Place

Syria?

Summary

Book on Shiʻī esoteric wisdom. Relates to the Alawī Ghulāt community. Concerning doctrines and beliefs.

Notes

• Title from introduction (p. 1).
   
• Copy of a poem and vocabulary sheet laid in. Calligraphic design in black ink and colored sketch of a tree in orange and yellow drawn into the back inside cover. Sketches of swords on back flyleaf.
   
• Letter dated 13 December 1907 from Dr. S.A. Sterrett Metheny to Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr. was laid into the manuscript. Metheny indicates that the manuscript had been bought about twenty years earlier by Rev. Henry Easson, a Presbyterian missionary, from a Turkish soldier who said he had captured it in the house of a sheikh during a punitive expedition to the Ansyri mountains east of Latakia. This letter has been added to the Library's Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection and filed under Metheny, S. A photocopy of the letter is on file along with the notes on this manuscript.
   
• Seal of Solomon written out (p. 329) and also a stamp with the name Sulaymā̄n appear in several places throughout (p. 1, 156, 329, for example).
   

Watermark

Most leaves marked with Tre lune with a single initial, either B or G; a few leaves have a name in block letters.

Extent

214 leaves : 322 x 215 (235 x 150) mm bound to 315 x 220 mm

Foliation

Pagination has been added on every page, upper right corner (1-259), then on every verso, upper right corner (261-419). Some foliation in pencil has been added to the upper left rectos as well, especially at the end. References in the record are to the pagination as it appears.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish leather with flap on the right side as the book opens (Type II). Covers are blind stamped with sets of double lines forming a double frame with two sets crossing diagonally in the middle; the back cover has blind stamped florets in the spaces created among the crossing double lines. The flap also has blind stamped florets inside the double line frame. Covers are pulling away from the book at the hinges.

Layout

23-29 long lines; frame-ruled.

Decoration

Headers and guidewords are written larger, in a script similar to thuluth. Some chapter headings enclosed in decorative rectangles (p. [184], 329, for example). Other decorative florets appear around poetry and near chapter divisions. Between pages 208 and 215, there are rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh with elements of other scripts (maghribi, ruqʻah) in black ink, with fairly consistent use of hāʼ musalsalah; pointed, unvocalized. Copied in at least two hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Rev. Henry Easson (note in pencil inside front cover and letter that was laid in).
   
• Sold by Mrs. M.J. Easson through Dr. S.A. Sterrett Metheny to Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr. (note in pencil inside front cover and letter that was laid in).
   
• Gift of Joseph G. Rosengarten, 1907 (note in pencil on Flyleaf 2r, front of book).
   

Subjects topical

• Nosairians
• Nosairians

Genres

• Codices
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Manhaj al-ʻilm wa-al-bayān wa-nuzhat al-samʻ wa-al-aʻyān
• Loose leaf 3 recto — Qaṣīdah.

Decorations

• fol. 211v — Drawing: weapons
• Inside back cover — Drawing: tree (upside down)
• Inside back cover — Calligraphy (upside down)
• Loose leaf 1 recto — Vocabulary list