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

Title

Awwal Wafayāt al-aʻyān wa-anbāʼ al-zamān.
اول وفيات الاعيان وانباء الزمان

Authors

• Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282
  ابن خلكان،
• Annenberg Research Institute

Other related names

• ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, former owner
  عثمان بن محمد بن عبد الملك،
• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 130
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924384613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1140447440
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms130.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1599?

Summary

Copy of the first volume of Ibn Khallikan's biographical dictionary. This volume contains through the beginning of Ḥarf al-Ḍād.

Notes

• Ms. Codex
   
• Paper: Laid paper with chain lines in sets of two occasionally visible.
   
• Several owners' notes (f. 1r)
   

Extent

I, 166, i leaves : 260 x 184 (205 x 115) mm bound to 256 x 182 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper outer verso; no catchwords.

Support

Paper

Binding

Quarter covers with flap (Type II); marbled paper sides and brown leather spine and fore-edge hinge; title on bottom edge.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in brown ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Cyrus Adler to the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik (note in ink, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Muslims--Biography--Early works to 1800
• Muslim scholars--Islamic Empire--Biography--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Biographical dictionaries
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Envelope flaps (features)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Awwal Wafayāt al-aʻyān wa-anbāʼ al-zamān.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1r — Notations in ink