Kitāb Alghāz fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah
كتاب الغاز في اللغة العربية
- Description
- Compilation of riddles drawn from early Islamic and pre-Islamic poetry, arranged in alphabetical order by their answers.
- Alternate Title
- Alghāz fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- Manuscripts, Arabic
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- riddles (documents)
- Annotations (Provenance)
- Stamps (Provenance)
- Date
- 1320
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Riddles, Arabic
- Riddles, Arabic -- Early works to 1800
- Arabic poetry -- 622-750
- Arabic poetry
- Collection
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 93 leaves : paper ; 280 x 180 (196 x 115) mm bound to 280 x 184 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 3r).
- Collation: Paper, 93; 1¹⁴ 2⁶ 3¹⁴ 4⁶ 5¹⁴ 6⁶ 7¹⁴ 8⁶ 9¹⁴( -1); [1-93], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
- Layout: Written in up to 29 long lines. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, with headings in thuluth.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red; puzzles in decorative layouts added in ink on front flyleaf by a later hand (f. 1r).
- Binding: Light brown leather, blind-stamped with central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis, rebacked.
- Origin: Likely copied in Egypt, dated A.H. 17 Rajab 720 (August 1320 CE) (f. 92v and inscription on title page, f. 3r).
- Notations on front flyleaf, including an owner's note? dated 994 A.H. (1586 CE).
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Arabic.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs486.html
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3xp6v415
- Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000490
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 486
- Provenance
- Formerly owned by Sayyid Maḥmūd bin Nāṣir (inscription in Maghribī hand recording purchase in Egypt in A.H. 1076 (1665-1666), f. 3r.
- Formerly in the library of the al-Zāwiyah al-Nāṣiriyah at Tamegroute, Morocco, founded by the Bin Nāṣir family in the 17th century (stamped seals, f. 2r, 3r).
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jul. 2007.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
- Maḥmūd bin Nāṣir, active 1665, former owner.
- Zāwiyah al-Nāṣiriyah, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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