Awwal Wafayāt al-aʻyān wa-anbāʼ al-zamān.

Abstract:

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

Creator:

Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282.

Timespan:

Islamic Empire.

Date:

1400

Identifier:

9924384613503681; (OCoLC)1140447440; (OCoLC)on1140447440; (PU)2438461-penndb-Voyager

Language:

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).

Publisher:

[between 1400 and 1599?]

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms130.html

Subject:

Muslim scholars -- Islamic Empire -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.; Muslim scholars.; Muslims -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.; Muslims -- Biography.; Manuscripts, 16th century.; Biographical dictionaries.; Envelope flaps (features); Biographies.; Manuscripts, Arabic.; Codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, 15th century.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

i, 166, i leaves : paper; 260 x 184 (205 x 115) mm bound to 256 x 182 mm

Personal Name:

ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, former owner.; Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, former owner.

Corporate Name:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.; Annenberg Research Institute.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

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.; Several owners' notes (f. 1r); 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.; Layout: Written in 21 long lines.; Script: Written in naskh in brown ink; pointed.; Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper outer verso; no catchwords.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

CAJS Rar Ms 130