Manuscript Monday: LJS 408 – [Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah]. (Video Orientation)

Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 408, a commentary on the Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah, written in the 12th century by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī. Numerous marginal annotations by the copyist. Written in Samarqand, Uzbekistan, dated A.H. 830 (end of Ramadan; July 1427) (f. 64v-65r).

Video orientation for LJS 408

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