Abstract: Work on fortune-telling with circles, charts and tables, ending with rhapsodomantic poems attributed to various authors.Binding note: Upper and lower covers and envelope-flap made of leather over paper pasteboards. The upper and lower covers are similarly gold-tooled with a small central motif of four flowers on stem enclosed in a frame with the same flower on stem motif at each corner and a single gold chain outer frame. The envelope-flap has the same outer frame and three flower on stem motifs. Disbound.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 6a).Number of lines per page varies. Written in medium small naskh in black, red and green ink, with yellow and blue for the circles. The text is framed within two red lines. European glazed paper with watermark. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.The title also appears on fol. 1 (later hand).Text proper on fol. 6a-42b. On the 5 fol. preceding: inscriptions (title, biographical notes, verses of poetry, short text). On the 7 fol. following: inscriptions and several short texts (fol. 45a, title: "Kitāb al-Rawḍ al-mustaṭāb al-muḥtawī ʻalá tashjīr uṣūl al-intishār" by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn al-Muʻayyad ; on fol. 49a: "yaqūl ... Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm"). For a description of content, see P. Hitti. Garrett coll., 964.Collation: Paper ; fol. 49 ; ii (endpaper, with inscriptions) + 45 + ii (endpaper, with inscriptions).Incipit: بسم ... هذا كتاب القرعة السدادية الحميرية لابن سدّاد ولقّبها بتحفة الزمن في طرف اهل اليمن وكيفيته اظهار الضمير انّ السَّايل اذا نظر الى هذه الدواير التي في ظهر هذه الورقة واختار مثلاExplicit: ان يرى النائم كانه في ماَءِ فتاخذ حرف الميم او يرى كانه راكب فرسٍ فتاخذ حَرف الفاء وبالله التوفيق -جدول- بدل على قضاء الخاحَه ... بدل على نعت(؟) الامانه والديانه
With: Kitâb-ı usûl-i melhame (ff. 2r-19r).17 x 12.8 cm (13.5 x 9 cm).Light-cream laid paper.Written in vocalized naskh, in two columns, in black rubricated in red, 13 lines per page.Copied in the hand of Yūnus ibn Saqqā, most probably in 841 AH 1438 AD, the date of the first title in the volume(see f. 18r).MS Turk 13. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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
Title of book on f. 1r added by later hand.According to colophon (f. 18r), copy completed at the beginning of Shawwāl 841 AH April 1438 AD in the hand of Yūnus ibn Saqqā.With: Rûz-nâme (ff. 18v-21v).One folio missing at the beginning.17 x 12.8 cm (13.5 x 9 cm).Light-cream laid paper. Folios 14-16 worm-eaten.Written in vocalized naskh, in one column, 11 lines per pages, in black rubricated in red. Words at beginning of sentences either in red or red overlined.MS Turk 13. Houghton Library, Harvard University.