Details

Subject(s)

• Aljamía—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Malikites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Spanish [Browse]

Related name

• Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Browse]

Summary note

Copy of a translation into Aljamiado (Spanish written in Arabic letters) of the Risālah, a treatise on Maliki law, of Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī.

Notes

• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece and marginal medallion (f. 4v); marginal manicules throughout; zoomorphic and anthropomorphic drawings in the margins along with some abstract drawings used to fill lines or to decorate margins throughout; rubrications in red and heavier brown.
• Foliation: Foliation in red ink (4-79; 90-111) with added foliation in black ink (112-203), upper left verso.
• Layout: 18 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Item is undated; likely produced in the late 16th century, based on the paper.
• Script: Written in an andalusi in brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 515.
• Title from introduction (f. 4v).
• Watermark: sphere, similar to Briquet 14039, localized to Saumur 1589.

Location of originals

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

Source of description

Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.

Binding note

Reverse leather with three leather ties; top and bottom of spine of a lighter brown leather, also reverse.

Language note

Spanish

Script

(in Arabic script); some Arabic chapter headings.

Source acquisition

Purchase.

References

• de Castilla, Nuria M. "A la búsqueda de manuscritos perdidos." Circulaciones mudéjares y moriscas. Redes de contacto y representaciones, 2018, 325-344.
• de Castilla, Nuria M. "Histoire et codicologie du livre manuscrit arabe." Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Section des sciences historiques et philologiques, 149 (2018): 40-44
• Ribera, Julián. Manuscritos arabes y aljamiados de la Biblioteca de la Junta. Madrid (1912), 266-267.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

964570024

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