Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Dhakhīrat al-Iskandar al-Malik ibn Fīliqs Dhī al-Qarnayn.
ذخيرة الاسكندر الملك بن فيلقس ذي القرنين

Other related names

• Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C, attributed name
• Aristotle, attributed name
• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner

Call number

MS Or 276
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13720578
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085517034
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_276.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13720578

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Place

between 1700 and 1850?

Summary

Copy of a treatise on talismans and astrology said to be by Aristotle who wrote it for Alexander the Great, then said to have been translated into Arabic at the request of the Caliph al-Muʻtaṣim. 23 ink illustrations of various creatures drawn on slightly darker paper pasted onto the substrate.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from title page and introduction (f. 4r)
   

Extent

59 leaves : 260 x 175 (190 x 110) mm, bound to 270 x 180 mm

Foliation

Foliated in Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, upper center recto. Catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Half covers. Brown textile spine and corners with brown and green marble paper sides over pasteboard. Plain brown doublure.

Layout

13 lines per page with some lines shortened when necessary to fit an image.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. 23 small monochrome illustrations on brown paper pasted onto the substrate (f. 34v-37r, 38v-39v, 40v-41v, 42v, 44v-46r).

Script

Written in clear naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   
• Formerly owned by George A. Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Talismans--Religious aspects--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts
• Half covers

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Dhakhīrat al-Iskandar

Decorations

• Inside Front Cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"
• fol. 34v — Illustration
• fol. 35r — Illustration
• fol. 35v — Illustration
• fol. 35v — Illustration
• fol. 36r — Illustration
• fol. 36r — Illustration
• fol. 36v — Illustration
• fol. 36v — Illustration
• fol. 37r — Illustration
• fol. 38v — Illustration
• fol. 39r — Illustration
• fol. 39v — Illustration
• fol. 40v — Illustration
• fol. 41r — Illustration
• fol. 41r — Illustration
• fol. 41v — Illustration
• fol. 42v — Illustration
• fol. 42v — Illustration
• fol. 44v — Illustration
• fol. 44v — Illustration
• fol. 45r — Illustration
• fol. 45v — Illustration
• fol. 46r — Illustration