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

Title

Abridged history of Arab dynasties.

Authors

• Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund

Other related names

• Makiya, Mohamed, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1892
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969738033503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1059578322

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1699?

Summary

An abridged copy of a history of several Arab dynasties, ending with the Almohads. This volume contains three partial chapters: the end of an abridgement of chapter 1, chapter 2, and the beginning of chapter 3. The text begins and ends abruptly. Chapter 2 (f. 47v-90r) is about the Prophet Muhammad. Chapter 3 starts with the first four Caliphs, continues through the Umayyads (f. 103r-120v), tours briefly through the Abbasid rulers (f. 120v-142v), mentions the Fatimids (f. 143v), then follows up with brief accounts of the Almohad rulers through al-Ḥasan al-Saʻīd ibn Yaʻqūb al-Manṣūr (d. 646 A.H = 1249).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Trefoil above initials G/V or 6/V on some leaves. Venetian tre lune on some leaves.

Extent

150 leaves : 300 x 205 (204 x 115) mm bound to 300 x 204 mm

Foliation

Modern western numeral foliation in pencil; catchwords on each verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in blind stamped red leather with flap (Type II) over pasteboard; endbands in yellow thread; front and back covers have embossed frames and contain blind stamped mandorla of green leather onlay with two pendants on the vertical axis; flap also holds two green leather blind stamped onlay pendants; doublure of thin, brown leather, scored in a regular pattern along inside foredge flap; doublure of envelope flap covered over with pinkish paper cut in a pattern along the long edge and two cutaways colored blue; pastedowns have been sloppily replaced by modern, white paper.

Layout

29 long lines, compactly written; text block is frame-ruled; poetry is indented on both sides; no colophon.

Script

Written in polychrome maghribi script; predominately brown ink; text is pointed with fully vocalized headings; occasional marginal notes.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Mohamed Makiya.
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's (South Kensington) as part of the Mohamed Makiya collection, 18 April 2016, lot 145.
   

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Abridgements
• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Abridged history of Arab dynasties]