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Title

Laṭāʼif al-kalām fī aḥkām al-aʻwām.
لطائف الكلام في احكام الاعوام

Authors

• Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad, active 14th century-15th century
  حسيني، محمد،

Other related names

• Muḥammad Dhará, former owner
  محمد ذرى،
• Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, active 1790, former owner
  مصطفى صدقي،

Call number

LJS 466
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9951487543503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122647491
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5148754 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs466.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian and Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 852 (1448)

Summary

Two treatises on astrology bound together.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   
• Ownership stamps and inscriptions (f. 1r).
   

Extent

103 leaves : 162 x 125 (125 x 75-85) mm. bound to 162 x 130 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i + 103 + i; 1-95, [96-103], later foliation in ink, upper left recto, end of manuscript (f. 96-103) not foliated.

Support

Paper

Binding

Light brown leather over pasteboard with marbled paper sides.

Layout

Written in 15 (f. 1v-95r) and 19-20 (f. 96v-100v) long lines.

Decoration

7 astronomical diagrams (f. 97r-101r) in red and black ink; 2 of another type of diagram in red and black ink (f. 82r, 83r); tables in red and black ink (f. 83v-84v, 101v-103r); rubrications and overlining in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, by at least 2 hands (f. 1v-95r, 96v-103r).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Muḥammad Dhará, the timekeeper at the mosque of Sulṭān Muḥammad Khān (note in ink, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, 1790? (stamp, f. 1r).
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2004.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Treatises
• Compilation manuscripts
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 22r — Table, f. 22r
• fol. 82r — Diagram, f. 82r
• fol. 83r — Diagram, f. 83r
• fol. 83v — Table, f. 83v
• fol. 84r — Table, f. 84r
• fol. 97r — Diagram, f. 97r
• fol. 97v — Diagram, f. 97v
• fol. 98r — Diagram, f. 98r
• fol. 98v — Diagram, f. 98v
• fol. 99v — Diagram, f. 99v
• fol. 101r — Diagram, f. 101r
• fol. 101v — Table, f. 101v
• fol. 102r — Table, f. 102r
• fol. 102v — Table, f. 102v
• fol. 103r — Table, f. 103r