Abstract: Treatise on the drawing of magical squares (with numbers, letters, words, etc.) in three sections (lawḥ). This text is also attributed to Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Yazdī (d. 858/1454).Binding note: Red leather over paper boards. Blind-stamped center and corner-pieces, with an outer frame consisting of two double-fillets.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 13).The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 2a, l. 7) and in several squares, the latter in the form "ʻamal Yaʻqūb ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī" or "ʻamal Yaʻqūb ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāʼūsī". See fol. 59a, 66a, 67b, 70a.Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with squares, tables and circles in red, black and yellow ink. A few tables are left blank. The text is framed within a gold, black and red border, with an outer frame made of a single blue fillet. Simple illuminated headpieces in red and gold on fol. 1b, 35b and 60b. Laid paper ; glossy.Incipit: حمدى بر وفق اعداد نا متناهى مقرون تسبيح افراد وازواج مكوّنات
Binding: Binding with flowers and arabesques, rich in gold.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʻīl Gāzurgāhī, Majālis al-ʻushshāq (ff. 1a-197a).Decoration: Illustrated with 74 miniature paintings.Hand: Excellent Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
19.5 x 13.5 cm.Written in naskh and taʻlīq scripts by various hands in black ink ; some texts are rubricated.Various types of laid paper; some with watermarks.Ownership statement by İbrahim el-Edhemî bin Ömer bin Mehmed bin İbrahim Sivâsî câbi-i vakf-i Hatîbzâde Ahmed Ağā (f. 39r).Seal of Ibrāhīm al-Adʼhamī, 1177 AH 1763 AD (f. 39r).A note dated Ramaḍān 1067 AH 1657 AD (f. 39r).MS Turk 74. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian.
Gift of the United States Naval Academy, January 25, 1931.Ownership statement by al-Sayyid ʻUbayd Allāh Muḥammad b. al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá. Seal of the same person reads Muḥammad ʻUbayd Allāh.MS Arab 12. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic, Persian and Turkish.
Title supplied by cataloger.Treatises are copied in the hand of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥājj ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá between 1106-1128 AH 1694-1716 AD in ʻAntāb Gaziantep, Turkey.MS Arab 292. Houghton Library, Harvard University.Most texts in Arabic; some in Ottoman Turkish and Persian.
Written in one or two columns, 15 lines per page, in black and red.One of the works dated 1182 AH 1768 AD according to colophon (f. 43r) and the other 1171 AH 1757 AD. Copied by Ghulām Khālid walad-i Shaykh Karīm (or Karam)-bakhsh ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad Shafīʻ, who was also the owner of the book.A note on f. 102r dated 1226 AH 1811 AD, followed by a seal that reads ʻIzzat ʻAlī, 1226.MS Persian 40. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian and Arabic.
در نمایشگاه بین المللی کتاب تهران در سال ۱۳۹۵ بازدیدکنندگان می توانستند در غرفه ی عکس «شهدای مدافعان حرم» با پوشیدن لباس و تجهیزات نظامی در مقابل تصویری از ویرانه های شهری در سوریه عکس یادگاری بگیرند. خبرگزاری جمهوری اسلامی که ناشر این تصاویر است این عکس ها را «مجازی و معنوی» توصیف می کند.