Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn wa-īḍāḥ sabīl al-murshidīn.

Abstract:

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.

Creator:

Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad, -983?

Date:

1419

Identifier:

9914691833503681; (OCoLC)122545099; (OCoLC)ocn122545099; (PU)1469183-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[North Africa?] : A.H. 822 (1419)

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex25.html

Subject:

Religious ethics -- Early works to 1800.; Islam -- Doctrines.; Islam -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.; Religious ethics.; Ethics.; Religious life -- Islam -- Early works to 1800.; Religious life -- Islam.; Islamic ethics -- Early works to 1800.; Islamic ethics.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 17th century.; Codices (bound manuscripts); Blind tooled (decoration); Manuscripts, Arabic -- 18th century.; Envelope flaps (features)

Physical Description:

142 leaves, unbound : paper; 270 x 205 (195 x 160) mm bound to 270 x 215 mm

Personal Name:

Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903, former owner.; Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921, former owner.

Rights:

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

Notes:

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

Physical Location:

Oversize Ms. Codex 25