Collection of alphabets and encoded correspondence

Title:

Collection of alphabets and encoded correspondence

Date:

14--

Description:

Collection of encrypted correspondence between the compiler and various correspondents, in approximately 150 alphabets, accompanied by transcriptions of the letters in Arabic. The compiler cites Shihāb al-Dīn al-Jindī al-ʻAlāʼī, Burhān al-Dīn al-Qudsī, and Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al-Ḥusaynī as authorities for some of the alphabets. The manuscript is incomplete, lacking its beginning and end. Occasional marginal notes. Some worm damage in margins.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Codices
Alphabets (symbols)
Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Alphabets--Specimens

Geographic region:

Syria?

Provenance:

Sold at auction at Christie's, 1996.Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1996.Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.

Extent:

Written in 13 long lines.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania

Rights:

These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 51: Collection of alphabets and encoded correspondence are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
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Identifier:

LJS 51

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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