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cuties-in-codices · 1 year ago

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some impressions from the "Kalīlaẗ wa Dimnaẗ" (كليلة و دمنة), an arabic manuscript from 1762 containing a collection of fables and 180 illustrations, translated from middle persian to arabic by Ibn al-Muqaffa ʿAbd Allâh

source: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Arabe 3475, fol. 31 verso (birth), fol. 20 verso (cows), fol. 62 recto (woman) and fol. 90 recto (sex).

#illuminated manuscript #arabic manuscript #18th century #Kalīlaẗ wa Dimnaẗ #Ibn al-Muqaffa ʿAbd Allâh #illuminations #illustrations #not really medieval but who cares this is my blog

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arthistoryanimalia · 5 months ago

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For #WorldCrocDay + #ManuscriptMonday :

Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) having its teeth cleaned by the "Crocodile Bird" (Trochilus), from a 1615 copy of the Kitāb al-Ḥayawān (The Book of Animals) by al-Jāḥiẓ (c. 776–868/869 CE). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D140inf.

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curioscurio · 2 months ago

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the edible hit different tonight

#I kid you not i got into bed at midnight and when i checked the time again after this it was 2 am #and im still toasted .... i have to go back in #im so close to connecting the dots #that one manuscript i found... abu ma shars astronomy works.... works that influenced francis bacon....#both of whom were also influenced by HOMEBOY AL-KINDI the absolute goat of arabic cryptography

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upennmanuscripts · 3 months ago

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Coffee With A Codex is an informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. If you miss an event, no fear! CWAC is recorded and posted to our YouTube channel. Check it out and see what you've been missing!

Here's a clip from the CWAC with four copies of Secretum secretorum, in Arabic and Latin. Secretum secretorum is a popular treatise presented as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great on statecraft, astronomy, astrology, magic, and medicine. Two of our copies are in Arabic, dating from the 12th and 14th century, and the other two are 15th century copies from Germany. The one in the clip is LJS 459.

🔗 watch the full 30-minute video: https://bit.ly/3SRafbc

🔗 find out more about CWAC: https://bit.ly/3zsqip2

#medieval #manuscript #event #cwac #coffee with a codex #zoom #recording #secretum secretorum #arabic

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artstfuff · 27 days ago

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from Al-Sufi's "Book of the Constellations of the Fixed Stars" (copy), arabic manuscript

#astronomy #manuscript #medieval #stars #creatures #dragon #and others.....#persian #arabic

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lionofchaeronea · 2 years ago

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A mad dog bites a man. Miniature (gouache, ink, and gold on paper) from an Arabic translation of Dioscorides' Materia Medica, with calligraphy by Abdallah ibn al-Fadl; written in 1224. Now in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

#art #art history #illuminated manuscript #manuscript illumination #miniature #illustration #Dioscorides #Materia Medica #Middle Ages #medieval #medieval art #Arabic art #Islamic art #calligraphy #Abdallah ibn al-Fadl #gouache #ink and gold on paper #13th century art #Freer Gallery of Art

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noosphe-re · 1 year ago

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#graphic design #manuscript #calligraphy #Islamic manuscript #Islam #Arabic calligraphy #Islamic #Muslim #The Islamic Manuscript Association #writing #books #brand design #logo

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nonsense-aesthetics · 10 months ago

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Calligraphism

#calligraphy #illuminated manuscript #islamic calligraphy #persian #arabic #arabic calligraphy #chinese seal script #made-up aesthetic #nonsense aesthetic #aesthetic #aesthetics #aesthetic moodboard #moodboard aesthetic

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sayxit · 6 months ago

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Sketch

Love calligraphy

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iamthepulta · 7 months ago

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This CITATION, lol.

I'm gonna be fucking doomed when I start research on Al-Razi~ I love it.

#Arabic scholars in the Golden Age are 1) my favorite people 2) untrackable for the western world apparently.#How the FUCK am I supposed to track down a light brown cardboard binding with no flaps manuscript with dimensions 11.5 x5.5?!#God at least he gave me the citation though lol. This is great. Also on the citation above Levey says 'this manuscript is equivalent to #MS Landberg 637 in Berlin. Quotes are from this MS' which means the citation I'm referencing has no equivalent he knows of

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arthistoryanimalia · 1 year ago

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For #WorldGiraffeDay:

Giraffe from a 15th c. Syrian illuminated manuscript of Kitāb al-ḥayawān (Book of the Animals) by the 9th c. naturalist Al-Ǧāḥiẓ/Jahiz. Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Ms. Arab. B 54, f. 36

#arabic art #Islamic art #15th century #Middle Eastern art #Near Eastern art #giraffe #animal holiday #World Giraffe Day #illuminated manuscript #book art #book illustration #miniature art

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1700-something · 2 years ago

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Quran, from Herat, Afghanistan or Bukhara, Uzbekistan

About 1766

Denver Art Museum

#Quran #18th century #art #books #book arts #Arabic #1700s #Denver art museum #manuscript

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upennmanuscripts · 1 year ago

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LJS 486 is a compilation of riddles drawn from early Islamic and pre-Islamic poetry, arranged in alphabetical order by their answers. It was likely copied in Egypt, dated A.H. 17 Rajab 720 (August 1320 CE)

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#medieval #manuscript #medieval manuscripts #islam #arabic #poetry #egypt #14th century #book history #rare books

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dailymanuscript · 1 year ago

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