USA, Ann Arbor (MI), University of Michigan Library, Isl. Ms. 926
How To Cite
USA, Ann Arbor (MI), University of Michigan Library, Isl. Ms. 926, fol. x1, digital image published by the Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), URI: https://dare.uni-koeln.de/app/manuscripts/BOOK-DARE-M-US-ARB-UML-926/page/1
USA, Ann Arbor (MI), University of Michigan Library, Isl. Ms. 926
Miscellany
Physical Description
Material: Paper
Pages: 214 leaves
Leaves Format:not available
Dimensions: 310 x 210 mm
Detailed Description
Foliation:
Pagination in pencil (during digitization), Western numerals
Pages 90 / 91 twice (see
46v-
48r
)
Condition Description:
Quite good condition
Decoration:
Black ink
Headings written bigger and bold
Layout:
Text is set in one column.
22
to
26
lines to the page
Hand Description:
One hand, carefully written in Ruqʻah, no scribe named
Serifless and freely ligatured with slight effect of inclination toward the right, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots
Binding Description:
Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green
leather
over spine (quarter binding), spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands (تلخيص | فلسفة ارسطو | الاندلسي | J.H.D.), pastedowns and flyleaves in wove
paper
, printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green, stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe), (probably bound for
James Heyworth-Dunne
).
Acquisition:
Manuscript acquired by the
University Library
in
1950
or in
1951
Provenance:
The manuscript was formerly part of the personal collection of
James Heyworth-Dunne
(died
1974
), a senior reader in Arabic at the
SOAS
in
London
from
1928
to
1948
, who thereafter became a member of the staff at the
Middle East Institute
in
Washington, D.C.
Upper pastedown label (
x2
) with ex libris of
James Heyworth-Dunne
, stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No 7967"
History
Origin Date: 29th May, 1937 (19th Rabīʻ al-awwal, 1356)
Origin Place: Egypt (?)
University of Michigan
Library:Islamic Manuscripts Collection
[description]
IFFF
