Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book in Arabic on calendars, planets and astrology.

Authors

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Haines, Joseph H, former owner

Call number

Lewis O 168
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2572445
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1243897811
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_168.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2572445

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1816

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Copy of a book about calendar systems, astrology, and fortune telling; references the Prophet Daniel as the source of much of the information.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

154, ii leaves : 160 x 107 (124 x 75) mm, bound to 165 x 114 mm

Foliation

Paginated in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper center, with some numbers skipped: [0]-8, 1-43, 45-182, 189-[300].

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with blind-tooled central diamond pattern and horizontal bands on the spine; plain paper doublure.

Layout

Written in 17 long lines.

Decoration

Several diagrams, tables; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in brown ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Joseph H. Haines (bookplate inside back cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Religious calendars
• Astrology, Arab
• Fortune-telling
• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century

Genres

• manuscripts (documents)
• diagrams
• tables (documents)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 — [Book in Arabic on calendars, planets and astrology].
• 1 — [Beginning of text]
• 3 — [Table of contents]
• 1 — [Book in Arabic on calendars, planets and astrology].
• 1 — [Beginning of text]
• 3 — [Table of contents]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Scribbles and letters in pencil