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

Title

Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn wa-īḍāḥ sabīl al-murshidīn.
تنبيه الغافلين وايضاح سبيل المرشدين

Authors

• Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad, -983
  ابو الليث السمرقندي، نصر بن محمد،

Other related names

• Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903, former owner
• Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 25
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914691833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122545099

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Place

North Africa?

Summary

Lacunose copy of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī's work on ethics and advice. The leaves are unbound and pages are missing, particularly from the beginning. Some pages have been rewritten in another hand and replaced.

Notes

• Title from introduction (f. 1r).
   
• Two leaves have been laid into the volume.
   

Extent

142 leaves, unbound : 270 x 205 (195 x 160) mm bound to 270 x 215 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper right verso; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

The covers are brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with a blind stamped and tinted central mandorla and blind tooled frames. The flap has a coordinating blind stamped, tinted medallion. The pastedowns on the inside covers and the flap have been trimmed in a scalloped pattern along one edge. The covers are not bound to the text. Endbands in crimson and white are visible along the bottom edge of the spine.

Layout

23 long lines.

Script

Written in maghribi in brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Marcus Jastrow and Morris Jastrow, Jr.
   
• Accessioned, 1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Religious ethics--Early works to 1800
• Religious life--Islam--Early works to 1800
• Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800
• Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
• Ethics

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Envelope flaps (features)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn wa-īḍāḥ sabīl al-murshidīn.