Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Nisbah ilá al-mawāḍiʻ wa-al-buldān.
[النسبة الى المواضع والبلدان]

Authors

• Abū Makhramah, al-Ṭayyib ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1465-1540
  ابو مخرمة، الطيب بن عبد الله،

Other related names

• Radʻānī, Salīm Bilqīs, scribe
  ردعاني، سليم بلقيس،
• Muḥammad Ḥusayn, active 1829, former owner
  محمد حسين،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 129
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977649553003681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131863768
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_129.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1799?

Summary

Work connecting people's names to the place from which the name is taken. The work was composed in 918 or 928 A.H. (1512 or 1522 CE) according to the colophon copied into this copy. This copy is missing some pages at the beginning; the first complete entry is "Arak"; most of a quire of leaves is missing between f. 10 and f. 19; several pages at the end (f. 280-297) have had their inner, outer and lower edges trimmed, cutting off some text.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• "K & I? No. 10 Histoire Arabe" (note in ink, first flyleaf recto at front of book)
   

Extent

Ii, 297 leaves : 207 x 150 (175 x 120 and 150 x 95) mm bound to 210 x 160 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper outer recto (1-10, 19-297); catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

One remaining cover (front) of black leather over pasteboard, undecorated; board is detached.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ḥusayn who purchased it in 1245 A.H. (1829 CE) (note in ink, front inside cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
   

Subjects topical

• Names, Personal--Arabic--Early works to 1800
• Names, Arabic--Etymology--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Etymology--Names--Early works to 1800
• Onomastics--Arabic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [al-Nisbah ilá al-mawāḍiʻ wa-al-buldān].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner's note in ink
• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "John Frederick Lewis"