شرح منظومة كشف الران في الزايرجة

Title:

شرح منظومة كشف الران في الزايرجة

Date:

1787

Description:

Abstract: Volume comprising four texts on occult sciences (fortune-telling, talismans, divination).Binding note: Red paper with embossed vegetal motif pasted on paper pasteboards. Blue pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-15b : Sharḥ Manẓūmat Kashf al-rān fī al-zāyirjah.Contents: 2. fol. 16a-18b : Sharḥ bayt min Manẓūmat Kashf al-rān / Muḥammad al-Ghamrī.Contents: 3. fol. 19b-23a : Bāb fī ḥall al-ṭilasm wa-īḍāḥ al-sirr al-mubham / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghamrī al-Wāsiṭī.Contents: 4. fol. 23b-25b : al-Durrah al-muntakhabah fī al-suʼālāt al-muntasibah.Contents: 5. fol. 26a-28a : Tables with numbers and letters.Contents: 6. fol. 29a : Fāʼidah on the ascendant (al-ṭawāliʻ al-falakīyah).Contents: 7. fol. 29b-34b : Blank.Contents: 8. fol. 35a : Charts with numbers and a heading "10".Contents: 9. fol. 35b : Hādhā al-wafq al-sharīf al-mukhammas khālī al-wasaṭ qad nzlt fīhā qawluhu taʻālā ... etc., with a chart.Contents: 10. fol. 36a-37b : Blank.Contents: 11. fol. 38a-39a : Tables with numbers.Contents: 12. fol. 39b : Fāʼidah.Ms. codex.21 long lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of magenta ink. All the texts in the volume are written by the same hand. European glazed paper with watermark. Some of the leaves are dyed red, yellow or pale green. Contains charts and tables. Marginal notes in text no. 1, written in the same hand. Collation statement on fol. 22a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied in the first days of Jumādá al-Ulá 1201 by Muḥammad Najīb al-Azharī, known as al-ʻAṭṭār (colophon text 2, fol. 18b; text 3, fol. 23a; text 4, fol. 25b).

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Islamic magic—Early works to 1800

Provenance:

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

Extent:

i, 39, i leaves, ill. : paper ; 199 x 105 (138 x 60) mm. bound to 199 x 110 mm.

Publisher:

1787

Rights:

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

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 542H
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Is part of:

Robert Garrett
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
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