Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 50-1210.

[Jāmiʻ al-ʻulūm] [manuscript].

[Iran, between 1200 and 1225]

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

Summary of the branches of knowledge, including the Koran, hadith, 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.

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

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 with headings in thuluth script.

Decoration: Diagrams and tables in red and black (f. 40v, 57r, 111r-114v, 116r-116v, 132r-133v, 134v, 147v); thuluth headings in red; significant words and phrases in red.

Binding: Later morocco with blind-tooled borders.

Origin: Written in Iran in the first quarter of the 13th century.

UPenn LJS 404.

Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania LJS 404