The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This codex contains two short works on precious stones ascribed to Jamāl al-Dīn al-Tifāshī and Aristotle. The piece attributed to Aristotle is likely to be a paraphrase or extract from that author's Liber mineralium (or Lapidarius). This anonymous Ottoman copy was written in 989 AH / 1581 CE, possibly in Syria.
Written in partly pointed naskh script in black ink with rubrics and incidentals in red
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Syria (?)
989 AH / 1581 CE (given in numerals only)
book
Non-original Binding
Red goatskin (with flap); central lobed oval, pendants, and cornerpieces; doublures of brown goatskin with gold-painted central lobed oval
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Erased bequest
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Syria (?)
989 AH / 1581 CE (given in numerals only)
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Erased bequest
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This codex contains two short works on precious stones ascribed to Jamāl al-Dīn al-Tifāshī and Aristotle. The piece attributed to Aristotle is likely to be a paraphrase or extract from that author's Liber mineralium (or Lapidarius). This anonymous Ottoman copy was written in 989 AH / 1581 CE, possibly in Syria.
Written in partly pointed naskh script in black ink with rubrics and incidentals in red
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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