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Title

Penn Library's Library's LJS 486 - Kitāb Alghāz fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah.(Video Orientation)

Authors

Dot PorterFollow

Files

Date of this Version

3-20-2023

Comments

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 486, a compilation of riddles drawn from early Islamic and pre-Islamic poetry, arranged in alphabetical order by their answers.

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).

Record on Franklin, with link to a digital copy: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958092633503681

Record on Internet Archive, with a link to PDF: https://archive.org/details/ljs486

Link to eBook

http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/29

Link to OPENN

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs486.html

Keywords

Riddles Arabic, Riddles Arabic -- Early works to 1800, Arabic poetry -- 622-750, Arabic poetry, Manuscripts Arabic, Manuscripts Medieval, Codices (bound manuscripts), Riddles (document genres), Annotations (Provenance), Stamps (Provenance)

Disciplines

Arabic Language and Literature | Medieval Studies

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Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2023, March 20). Penn Library's Library's LJS 486 - Kitāb Alghāz fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah.(Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/224