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

Title

Kitāb Badīʻ al-inshāʼ wa-al-ṣifāt fī al-mukātabāt wa-al-murāsalāt.
كتاب بديع الانشاء والصفات في المكاتبات والمراسلات

Authors

• Karmī, Marʻī ibn Yūsuf, -1623 or 1624
  كرمي، مرعي بن يوسف،

Other related names

• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 162
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977646151703681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131863545
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_162.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1850?

Summary

Copy of a work of advice on letter writing with examples, preceded by a poem in the same hand.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 5r).
   
• Notations with tallies (f. 46v).
   

Extent

46 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 center recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather over pasteboard; blind-tooled design of eight straight lines intersecting in the middle surrounded by two frames made of a repeating square pattern; light blue paper doublure.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Given by Mayer Sulzberger to the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Letter writing, Arabic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Poem]
• fol. 5r — Kitāb Badīʻ al-inshāʼ wa-al-ṣifāt fī al-mukātabāt wa-al-murāsalāt.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 46v — Notations and calculations in ink