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

Title

Jāmiʻ al-ʻulūm.
جامع العلوم

Authors

• Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 1150-1210
  رازي، فخر الدين محمد بن عمر،

Other related names

• Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 404
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957623663503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/795184029
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5762366 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs404.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1200 and 1399?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Summary of the branches of knowledge, including the Qurʼān, ḥadīth, and history of Islam; grammar, rhetoric, and logic; medicine, anatomy, and pharmacology; gems and talismans; agriculture and veterinary science; geometry, geodesy, weight, arithmetic, and algebra; music; astronomy, astrology, and magic; theology, ethics, and political science. Marginal notes in a later hand. Pages missing at beginning and end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from added title page (first flyleaf recto at front of book).
   

Extent

178 leaves : 177 x 140 (128 x 100) mm bound to 177 x 147 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (later paper) + 178 + ii (later paper); [1-178], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords added by a later hand.

Support

Paper

Binding

Limp light brown leather with blind tooled frame of parallel lines; endbands in green and beige.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines.

Decoration

Diagrams and tables in red and black (f. 40v, 57r, 111r-114v, 116r-116v, 132r-133v, 134v, 147v); rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh script in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction at Piasa (Paris) as part of his collection, 7 June 1999.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Persian--Early works to 1600

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 13th century
• Manuscripts, 14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Early works

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 40v — Diagram, f. 40v
• fol. 57r — Diagram, f. 57r
• fol. 111r — Diagram, f. 111r
• fol. 111v — Diagram, f. 111v
• fol. 112v — Diagram, f. 112v
• fol. 113r — Diagram, f. 113r
• fol. 113v — Diagram, f. 113v
• fol. 114r — Diagram, f. 114r
• fol. 114v — Diagram, f. 114v
• fol. 116r — Diagram, f. 116r
• fol. 116v — Diagram, f. 116v
• fol. 119v — Drawing, f. 119v
• fol. 132r — Table, f. 132r
• fol. 133r — Table, f. 133r
• fol. 133v — Table, f. 133v
• fol. 134v — Diagram, f. 134v
• fol. 147v — Diagram, f. 147v