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Title

Bahjat al-manāzil.
بهجة المنازل

Authors

• Darwīsh, Muḥammad Adīb ibn Muḥammad
  درويش، محمد اديب بن محمد

Other related names

• Kānkash, Ḥ̣usayn Ḥāmid ibn ʻAbd Allāh, scribe
  كانكش، حسين حامد بن عبد الله.
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, donor
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 139
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944235533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276878175

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1221 (1806)

Summary

Description of practices and observances during the Hajj. Descriptions of the places and inns on the way to Mecca. Closes with a list of places and their distance from Mecca. Notes and marginal comments in the same hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v)
   
• Copy has ms. note ("Not Arabic Turkish") in pencil on front pastedown; ms. shelf marks in pencil and blue and black ink (f. [i] recto). Bookseller's printed description affixed to front pastedown.
   

Extent

I, 172, i leaves : 229 x 139 (216 x 114) mm with 5 leaves 228 x 161 mm (unfolded) bound to 230 x 144 mm

Foliation

Foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in red ink, upper left recto [(viii), 1-163, (i)]. Without catchwords.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in original full green leather tooled in gold; gold-tooled fore-edge and envelope flaps (Type II). Housed in a damaged paper case covered in red leather with head-edge flap and envelope flap; panels of marbled paper pasted to front and back of case; head-edge flap lined with green cloth; envelope flap covered in marbled paper; teal cloth pull with red leather end-tab attached to interior of case; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine of case.

Layout

Written in 25 lines per page in black and red ink with marginalia; main text border-ruled in ink and gilt with text rules in blind; margins frame-ruled in blind; section headings framed in ink and gilt; some section ends within triangular frames of ink and gilt. Five leaves folded (f. 77, 93, 109, 163-[164]).

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece chiefly gold with red, blue, and orange (f. 1v). Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in clear nastaʻliq; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of John Frederick Lewis and presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (armorial bookplate with ms. presentation inscription in red ink and shelf mark in black ink, front pastedown)
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (armorial bookplate, front pastedown).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on bookplate).
   

Subjects topical

• Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Mecca
• Islam--Customs and practices

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Unnumbered i verso — Table of Contents

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Catalog entry, number 216
• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "John Frederick Lewis"
• fol. 163v — Notations in ink