Jāmiʻ al-ʻulūm.

Abstract:

Summary of the branches of knowledge, including the Qurʼān, ḥadīth, and history of Islam; grammar, rhetoric, and logic; medicine, anatomy, and pharmacology; gems and talismans; agriculture and veterinary science; geometry, geodesy, weight, arithmetic, and algebra; music; astronomy, astrology, and magic; theology, ethics, and political science. Marginal notes in a later hand. Pages missing at beginning and end.

Creator:

Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 1150-1210.

Date:

1200

Description:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Identifier:

9957623663503681; (OCoLC)795184029; (OCoLC)ocn795184029; (PU)5762366-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Persian

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.; Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction at Piasa (Paris) as part of his collection, 7 June 1999.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Publisher:

[Iran?], [between 1200 and 1399?]

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs404.html; http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Persian.; Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Persian -- Early works to 1600.; Early works.; Tables (documents); Manuscripts, Persian.; Manuscripts, 13th century.; Manuscripts, 14th century.; Diagrams.; Codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, Medieval.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

178 leaves : paper, illustrations; 177 x 140 (128 x 100) mm bound to 177 x 147 mm

Personal Name:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.; Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner.

Corporate Name:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Decoration: Diagrams and tables in red and black (f. 40v, 57r, 111r-114v, 116r-116v, 132r-133v, 134v, 147v); rubrications in red.; Origin: The item is undated; possibly copied in the 13th or 14th century.; Binding: Limp light brown leather with blind tooled frame of parallel lines; endbands in green and beige.; Title from added title page (first flyleaf recto at front of book).; Foliation: Paper, ii (later paper) + 178 + ii (later paper); [1-178], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords added by a later hand.; Layout: Written in 15 long lines.; Script: Written in naskh script in black ink; pointed.; Persian.

Physical Location:

LJS 404

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)