Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Religious ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Former owner

• Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903 [Browse]
• Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921 [Browse]

Summary note

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

• 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.
• Decoration: Rubrications chiefly in red, but also in green and purple.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper right verso; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: 23 long lines.
• Origin: Copy completed on 23 Safar 822 A.H. (March 30, 1419), though that may be copied from another manuscript (f. 140v).
• Script: Written in maghribi in brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
• Title from introduction (f. 1r).
• Two leaves have been laid into the volume.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

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

Cite as

UPenn Oversize Ms. Codex 25.

OCLC

122545099

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