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Title

Collection of alphabets and encoded correspondence

Call number

LJS 51
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958166863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/808642011
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5816686

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Syria?

Summary

Collection of encrypted correspondence between the compiler and various correspondents, in approximately 150 alphabets, accompanied by transcriptions of the letters in Arabic. The compiler cites Shihāb al-Dīn al-Jindī al-ʻAlāʼī, Burhān al-Dīn al-Qudsī, and Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al-Ḥusaynī as authorities for some of the alphabets. The manuscript is incomplete, lacking its beginning and end. Occasional marginal notes. Some worm damage in margins.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

106 leaves : 180 x 124 (119 x 82) mm. bound to 180 x 135 mm

Collation

Paper, 106; 1² 2¹⁰ 3-4⁸ 5¹⁰ 6⁴ 7⁶ 8-12¹⁰ 13⁸. Catchwords on each page, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern quarter leather, wood covers.

Layout

Written in 13 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh script.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Christie's, 1996.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1996.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
   

Subjects topical

• Alphabets--Specimens

Genres

• Codices
• Alphabets (symbols)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

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