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زاد الاشراف في وفق القاف
Zād al-ashrāf fī wafq al-qāf
Author
Khaṭṭāṭ, Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad, 18th cent
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[18--?]
Description
10 leaves : paper, ill. ; 209 x 150 (150 x 88) mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 335L
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Islamic magic
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Amulets (Islam)
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Summary note
Treatise in five chapters (faṣl) on the magical properties of the letter qāf and its use in charms, with figures.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, l. 14).
27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark ("JL Gran Masso"), frame-ruled. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 10 ; 1¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذي اكرمنا باسراره ونلا قلوبنا بانواره والصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا محمد الذي تنورت الاكوان بظهوره ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الذليل ... هذه رسالة لطيفة تتعلق بالوفق الميني(؟) اذكر فيه الفوائد الواصلة الينا من المشايخ العظام
Explicit: ولبستم وفقي وعاونتم ضعفي في كل ما اريد الوحا ٢ العجل ٢ الساعة ٢ بارك الله فيكم وعليكم وصلى الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا والحمد لله رب العالمين امين
Binding note
Unbound.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 944
Brockelmann, C. GAL, GII, 294 (4/2)
OCLC
68941040
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