Ḍawʼ al-sirāj; ضوء السراج

Name:

Faraḍī, Maḥmūd ibn Abī Bakr, 1246 or 1247-1300

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1323/1347

Description:

14th-century copy of a late 13th-century manual on the mathematics of the Islamic law of inheritance, in the form of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on the Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah of 12th-century legal and mathematical scholar Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jun. 2002.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs436.html; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000326

Subject:

Inheritance and succession (Islamic law); Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 12th century. Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah; Mathematics, Arab -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics, Arab; Inheritance and succession (Islamic law) -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 14th century; Manuscripts, Medieval; Codices (bound manuscripts); Commentaries; Diagrams; Manuals (instructional materials); Tables (documents); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

123 leaves : paper, illustrations; 179 x 127 (134-143 x 88) mm bound to 179 x 139 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Foliation: Paper, i + 123 leaves; [i, 1-123]; alternating gatherings of 10 and 6 leaves.; Layout: Written in 19 long lines.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink, mostly unpointed, by at least 2 hands (first hand, f. 1v-56v, 104v-120v; second hand, 57r-104r), with an additional leaf bound in, f. 63.; Decoration: Diagrams (f. 43v-46r, 111r-111v, 114v-117r) and tables (105r-110r, 112r-114r, 118v-120v) in red and black ink; title page text in red and black ink (f. 1r); occasional words and phrases in red ink; double frame of red ink around text block and double red lines between sections on final pages of manuscript (f. 104v-120v).; Binding: Morocco with flap (Type II), faded marbled paper overlay on covers.; Origin: Sections of the copy dated to different times, though signed by the same scribe. First section dated 10 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 723 (27 March 1323) (f. 104r), end of the book dated Rajab 724 (July 1324) (f. 118r), and the added pages after the end dated Ramaḍān 747 (December 1346-January 1347) (f. 122r). The scribe is Masʻūd ibn Qāsim ibn Aḥmad ibn Masʻūd (f. 118r) with the added nisbah al-Shīrānī [?] (f. 104r).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 436

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)