Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kitāb al-barakah
كتاب البركة

Authors

• Ḥubayshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1313-1380
  حبيشي، محمد بن عبد الرحمن،

Other related names

• Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928, former owner

Call number

Penn Museum 29-201-705
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977570028403681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111628020
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/29_201_705.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1799?

Place

Morocco?

Summary

About the blessings of various occupations.

Notes

• Title from introduction (p. 3)
   
• Pagination in pencil, upper outer corners (1-314); catchwords every verso, lower left.
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 300 x 210 (240 x 150) mm bound to 300 x 222 mm.
   

Extent

1 online resource (ii, 157, i, paginated leaves)

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandola and blind tooled and stamped frames.

Layout

Written in 26 long lines; poetry in two columns.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in maghribī in dark brown ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Acquired during the Expedition in Morocco by Talcott Williams and Sophia Wells Royce Williams, 1898.
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800
• Barakah--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Fascimiles
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Manuscripts, 18th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 — Kitāb al-barakah.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notations
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations
• Watermark — Initials
• Watermark — Horse; measurements: 55 x 70 mm
• Watermark — Initials
• Watermark — Horse; measurements: 55 x 70 mm