Abstract: Collection of magic formulae and incantations, based on the name of the Prophet, on the name of God, on Qurʾanic verses, etc. The copy contains descriptions of talismans.Binding note: Rebound in red leather with flap. Blind stamp on covers and envelope flap.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 14 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Dark cream paper, with laid lines and fiber visible. Fol. i is a later addition (wove paper). Some leaves are poorly mended, with text hardly legible. The name of al-Shaykh al-Akbar is mentioned in a partly obliterated note on fol. 1a.Inscription in Arabic script on fol. (i)a: "Numrah 286".Origin: One text is dated Ḥims, Tuesday 7 Rajab 630 April 19, 1233 (fol. 96a).Incipit first text: بسم ... تبارك الذى نزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعامنيا نذيرا ... بسم ... تبارك الذى بيده الملك وهو على كل شى قدير
Abstract: Treatise on ancient, alchemical and magical alphabets and their use in talismans and magic, with tables, incomplete at end. Contains also transcriptions of secret scripts used in a series of texts, such as the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (fol. 30a-b).Binding note: Modern binding of violet paper over cardboard.Contents: Fol. 1a-22a: 24 scripts (from the language of Adam to the Kūfī script, which appeared during the reign of ʻAlī) -- fol. 22b-23b: consideration on scripture in general and the Arabic script -- fol. 23b-34a: the seven "al-aqlām al-musnadah" -- fol. 34b-37b: the seven ancient "al-aqlām al-musnadah" -- fol. 37b-40b: other scripts (qummī, fahlawī, etc.) -- fol. 41b-45b: al-aqlām al-sīmīyā -- fol. 46a-b: blank.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Number of lines per page varies; the few pages with continuous text have 18 to 19 long lines. Written in black and red ink. European paper with watermarks. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf (up to fol. 26b). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Contains tables with the letters of the different alphabets and their Arabic equivalent, a diagram explaining the secret meaning of the cross (fol. 37b) and another representing the tree of scriptures (fol. 40b).This is not the Shawq al-Mustahām fī maʻrifah rumūz al-aqlām by Ibn Waḥshīyah.Incipit: هذه الاحرف جميعها ينبغي لمن يعاني حل الاقلام يعرفها ويفهم تاويلها ليفهم منها علم لغة كل طايفةExplicit: القلم الحادي والعشرين من اقلام السيميا
Abstract: Treatise on charms and talismans using verses of the Qurʼān, incomplete at the beginning.Binding note: Brown stiffened leather.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.21 long lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red mainly for diagrams and charts. Marginal notes in a later hand; catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick oriental glazed paper; no chain line visible; thick vertical laid line visible. The pages have been trimmed so that parts of the marginalia and catchwords are cut off. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Excellent condition. The edges of the final leaf have been repaired (with loss of text of a later note).Contains magic script (fol. 26b) and a long note on the campaigns of Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn (fol. 26b).Copied by Ḥājjī ibn Jamāl al-Kātib al-Kāshī on 17 Rajab 888 (colophon, fol. 26b).Incipit: في سقف جديد في الماء فانه يغور من حينه ووقته ويطرد لمن احسن عمله في كل وقت \\\\Explicit: والامتزاج السابع ترسم في اليد في ساعة المشترى ويدخل على من يخافه فانه يامن شره ومقضى حواجه خ ك ع لا ط ى وهذا اخر ما وجدنا من كلام الشيخ في هذا المعنى وكذلك التقديم والتاخير في السورة والايات فكذلك وجدناه في الاصل المنقول منه النسخة ومكتوب عليها نظيرهذه الاشارة فليعلم ذلك
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).
Abstract: Treatise comprising an introduction, three chapters (bāb) and a conclusion on the magical properties of the triangle.Binding note: Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboard, with yellow, blue and red marbled paper pasted on the leather. Light cream paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a, later replacement).'21 long lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red for headings and keywords (sometimes overlined in red). Glazed European(?) paper. Two first folios are later replacements. The last fol. is mended with the text recopied on the repair (including the left part of the colophon). Inscription "132" in Western numerals corresponding to Brill\'s catalog written on the right upper corner of the upper cover pastedown.'Contains magical squares and talismans.Copied on 3 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1147? ("al-thālith min al-sādis min al-sābiʻ min al-khāmis min al-thānī ʻashr min al-hijrah"; colophon, fol. 40b; partly written by a later hand).Incipit: حمدا لمن وفق من اختاره خدمته والهمه بمحض اختياره دقايق الاسرار ولطايف حكمته وصلاة ... وبعد فيقول ... احمد الدمنهوري الحنفي المالكي الشافعي الحنبلي لما تفضل ذو الجلال والاكرام على الدولة القليةExplicit: فاصبر حتى يفرغ الدخان وعلامة الاجابة ان السيبة تدور يمينا لكن لاته(؟) من تمام العمل والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب
Abstract: A work on magic and prestidigitation in thirty chapters, detailed at the beginning of text (fol 2a-3a).Binding note: Modern European binding.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).The title also appears in the same form at the beginning of the text (fol. 1b), and on a modern label on the spine written in Roman characters, reading "ʻUyûn el-ḥaqâʼiq wa Îḍâḥ eṭ-Ṭarâʼiq next line Aḥmed el-ʻIrâqî".The name of the author appears on the title page as Ibn al-Qāsim, and at the beginning of the text as Abū al-Qāsim al-ʻIrāqī (fol. 1b).13 lines per page. Written in a medium small naskh in black and red ink. European glazed paper with watermark. Contains magic script, charts and drawings of talismans. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied on 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1274 (colophon, fol. 150a).Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 150 + i ; 1-15¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. The quires are numbered in reversed order (starting from the end) in Western numerals.Title page: هذا كتاب عيون الحقائق وايضاح الطرايق تأليف الشيخ العالم العلامة ابن قاسم احمد العراقي وهو مشتمل علي ملاعيب وحكم وفوائِدIncipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ولاعدوان الاعلي الظالمين وصلي الله ... وسلم قال الشيخ ... ابو القاسم العراقي ... انا لما رأينا اكثر الخلايق قد ظهر منهم الحيل في كثير من الطريقExplicit: ومن عدم المداراة عدم التوفيق والرشد والهداية والرحمة الواسعة والله تعالي اعلم انه مجيب وهاب ومسبب الاسباب وقد تم عيون الحقايق وايضاح الطرايق علي التمام والكمال والحمد لله علي كل حال وصلي الله علي سيدنا وحبيبنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم والحمد لله رب العالمين والله سبحانه وتعالي المرجو في حسن الخاتمة تم
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