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[Treatise on charms and talismans].
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[Iran?, 1483].
Description
26 leaves : paper, ill. ; 245 x 177 (170 x 125) mm. bound to 270 x 180 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 591
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Subject(s)
Islamic magic
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Early works to 1800
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Talismans
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Religious aspects
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Islam
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Qurʼan
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Summary note
Treatise on charms and talismans using verses of the Qurʼān, incomplete at the beginning.
Notes
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
Binding note
Brown stiffened leather.
Source acquisition
Purchase; Sam Fogg; 2006; AM2006-94.
OCLC
64445084
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