[Abridged history of Arab dynasties]

Date:

1650

Description:

An abridged copy of a history of several Arab dynasties, ending with the Almohads. This volume contains three partial chapters: the end of an abridgement of chapter 1, chapter 2, and the beginning of chapter 3. The text begins and ends abruptly. Chapter 2 (f. 47v-90r) is about the Prophet Muhammad. Chapter 3 starts with the first four Caliphs, continues through the Umayyads (f. 103r-120v), tours briefly through the Abbasid rulers (f. 120v-142v), mentions the Fatimids (f. 143v), then follows up with brief accounts of the Almohad rulers through al-Ḥasan al-Saʻīd ibn Yaʻqūb al-Manṣūr (d. 646 A.H = 1249).

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Mohamed Makiya.; Sold at auction at Christie's (South Kensington) as part of the Mohamed Makiya collection, 18 April 2016, lot 145.; Makiya, Mohamed, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex1892.html; The Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366271

Subject:

History; Kings and rulers

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts); Abridgements; Manuscripts, Arabic; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

150 leaves : paper; 300 x 205 (204 x 115) mm bound to 300 x 204 mm

Geographic Subject:

Islamic Empire -- History; Islamic Empire; Islamic Empire -- Kings and rulers

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Modern western numeral foliation in pencil; catchwords on each verso, lower left.; Layout: 29 long lines, compactly written; text block is frame-ruled; poetry is indented on both sides; no colophon.; Script: Written in polychrome maghribi script; predominately brown ink; text is pointed with fully vocalized headings; occasional marginal notes.; Decoration: Minimal decoration; some rubrications and larger text present to highlight quotations and names; ink colors become more varied in the latter folios and include green and purple inks.; Watermarks: Trefoil above initials G/V or 6/V on some leaves. Venetian tre lune on some leaves.; Binding: Bound in blind stamped red leather with flap (Type II) over pasteboard; endbands in yellow thread; front and back covers have embossed frames and contain blind stamped mandorla of green leather onlay with two pendants on the vertical axis; flap also holds two green leather blind stamped onlay pendants; doublure of thin, brown leather, scored in a regular pattern along inside foredge flap; doublure of envelope flap covered over with pinkish paper cut in a pattern along the long edge and two cutaways colored blue; pastedowns have been sloppily replaced by modern, white paper.; Origin: Likely copied in North Africa, in the latter half of the 17th century.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1892

Collection:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund