Oversize LJS 268 Kitāb al-Majisṭī. / كتاب المجسطي
Title
Kitāb al-Majisṭī.كتاب المجسطي
Authors
- Ptolemy, active 2nd century
بطليموس، - Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Other related names
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner
- Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Luṭf Allāh, former owner
احمد بن مبارك لطف الله، - Muḥammad al-Raʼīs, former owner
محمد الرأيس، - Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn ʻAbd al-Kabīr al-Kinānī al-Ḥasanī, former owner
محمد عبد الحي بن عبد الكبير الكناني الحسني، - Ibn al-Qursunah al-Isrāʼīlī, associated name
ابن القرسنة الاسرائيلي،
Call number
Oversize LJS 268(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9950583033503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122638121
- http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2025261 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ff3m111 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs268.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5058303
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
ArabicOrigin
Copied in Saragossa [Sarqusṭah] Spain in Jumādá al-Ākhirah A.H. 783 (September 1381 CE) for Ibn al-Qursunuh al-Isrāʼīlī, astronomer to Pedro IV of Aragon (colophon, f. 185r).
- Date
- A.H. 783 (1381)
- Place
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Spain
Summary
An extensive treatise on Aristotelian astronomy, considering the motion of the stars and planets in a spherical, geocentric universe.
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Many edges and corners of leaves mended with paper.
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
Watermark
Similar to Piccard, Axe, no. 788 (Florence, 1379).Extent
I, 174, i leaves : 280 x 215 (220 x 145) mm bound to 280 x 225 mmFoliation
Paper, 174; [1-37, 50-101, 124-145, 145-152, 101-124, 154-185]; modern foliation in pencil, correcting previous foliation in pencil, lower center recto.Support
PaperBinding
Red leather with flap (Type II); blind-stamped central mandorla and double frame of straight rules; gold-tooled around the central stamp and small, gilt-stamped corner decorations; plain paper doublure.Layout
Script
Provenance
- Formerly owned by Imam Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Lutfullāh, Muḥammad al-Raʼīs and Imam Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Kathīr al-Kinānī (note by Misjo Rinijo, f. 1v).
- Formerly owned by Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Luṭf Allāh, Muḥammad al-Raʼīs and Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn ʻAbd al-Kabīr al-Kinānī al-Ḥasanī (series of notes, f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by Misjo Rinijo (Monsieur Rinillot?), a French ambassador (note dated 1922, f. 1v).
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1998.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Formerly owned by Misiyo Riniyo (Monsieur Rinillot?), a French ambassador (note dated 1922, f. 1v).
Subjects topical
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800
Genres
- treatises
- diagrams
- Annotations (Provenance)
- Manuscripts, Arabic
- Manuscripts, 14th century
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Tables (Data)
Keywords
- Treatise
- 14th century
- Arabic
- Spanish
- Spain
- Diagrams
- Astronomy
- Paper
Licenses
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