Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kitāb al-Majisṭī.
كتاب المجسطي

Authors

• Ptolemy, active 2nd century
  بطليموس،

Other related names

• Ibn al-Qursunah al-Isrāʼīlī, associated name
  ابن القرسنة الاسرائيلي،
• 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،
• Regnault, Eugène, -1933, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00004988)

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://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs268.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2025261 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ff3m111

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 783 (1381)

Place

Spain

Summary

An extensive treatise on Aristotelian astronomy, considering the motion of the stars and planets in a spherical, geocentric universe.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Many edges and corners of leaves mended with paper.
   

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 mm

Foliation

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

Paper

Binding

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

Written in 36 long lines.

Script

Written in maghribī script by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Salāmah al- Sinhājī al-Muhājirī?, an astronomer (colophon, f. 185r).

Provenance

• 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 Imam Aḥmad ibn Mubārak Lutfullāh, Muḥammad al-Raʼīs and Imam Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Kathīr al-Kinānī (note by Misjo Rinijo or Misiyo Riniyo, probably Monsieur Regnault, a French ambassador, note dated 1922, f. 1v).
   
• Offered in A.H. 1330/1912 (‘547 〈lunar〉 years after the date of copying’) by ‘the Sharīf’, probably Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥayy b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kittānī al-Ḥasanī, an Idrīsī sharīf, as a present to Eugène Regnault (d. 1933), French plenipotentiary minister in Tangier, probably on the signature of the Treaty of Fez (30 March 1912) as a result of which Morocco became a French protectorate, or on his departure in 1913 from his position in Morocco (front endleaf recto, back endleaf verso) (José Bellver).
   
• 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.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• treatises
• Tables (Data)
• Tables (Data)
• Annotations (Provenance)

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