قرعة الخلفاء العباسية امراء المؤمنين

Title:

قرعة الخلفاء العباسية امراء المؤمنين

Date:

1700-1835

Description:

Abstract: A work on fortune-telling containing several astronomical and magic circles and charts.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboards, with the same blind stamped central medallion and an outer frame of blind fillets. Disbound.Ms. codex.Title from title page.21 lines per page in two or four columns. Written in medium large naskh in black and red ink, with color (mainly red and blue) for the astronomical and magical circles. Frame made of two lines in red ink troughout. Fol. 36b probably written by another hand. Glazed European paper with watermark (see fol. 12-13). Several ownership statements on fol. 1a (the earliest dated reading 1250 H. 1834/5). According to the catchwords, some leaves are missing (see between fol. 3b and 4a, with a mention in Latin in the upper margin of fol. 4a: "Hic desunt duo folia, cf. ms 550, fol. 8 vo seqq. -(?). L."). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Pagination in pencil using Arabic numerals from fol. 16b on (i.e., the first page after the charts).Contains 24 pages of "circles" (dāʻirah), starting with the "Dawāʾir al-suʾāl li-ikhrāj al-ḍamīr wa-al-ḥarf" and the "Dāʾirah li-jamʻ al-ḥurūf wa-maʻrifat al-manāzil", and ending with the "Dāʾirat al-mudun", followed by rhapsodomantic poems attributed to various authors.There is no colophon in the manuscript.Incipit: هذه دواير السوآل لاخراج الضمير والحرفExplicit: وعنده مفتاح الغيب لا يعلمها الا هو ويعلم ما في البرد والحر وما تسقط من ورقة الا يعلمها ولا حية في ظلمات الارض ولا رطب ولا يابس الا في كتاب مبين

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Illuminated manuscripts

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Fortune-telling

Provenance:

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Extent:

38 leaves : paper, ill. ; 294 x 210 (250 x 176) mm. bound to 294 x 210 mm.

Publisher:

between 17--? and 1835.

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 551Hq
Electronic Resource
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Replaces: pudl0032/551h

Is part of:

Robert Garrett
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

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