Details

Subject(s)

• Muslim scholars—Islamic Empire—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslims—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Former owner

• ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik [Browse]
• عثمان بن محمد بن عبد الملك، [Browse]
• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 [Browse]
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [Browse]

Related name

• Annenberg Research Institute [Browse]

Summary note

Copy of the first volume of Ibn Khallikan's biographical dictionary. This volume contains through the beginning of Ḥarf al-Ḍād.

Notes

• Binding: Quarter covers with flap (Type II); marbled paper sides and brown leather spine and fore-edge hinge; title on bottom edge.
• Decoration: Rubrications in red.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper outer verso; no catchwords.
• Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
• Ms. Codex
• Origin: Item is undated, perhaps produced in the 15th or 16th century.
• Paper: Laid paper with chain lines in sets of two occasionally visible.
• Script: Written in naskh in brown ink; pointed.
• Several owners' notes (f. 1r)

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik (note in ink, f. 1r).
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).

Source acquisition

Gift of Cyrus Adler to the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).

Cite as

CAJS Rar Ms 130

OCLC

1140447440

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