- شرح منظومة كشف الران في الزايرجة
- Sharḥ Manẓūmat Kashf al-rān fī al-zāyirjah ... [etc.].
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- Robert Garrett
- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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- Language:
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- Arabic
- Call number:
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- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 542H
- Electronic Resource
- Extent:
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- i, 39, i leaves, ill. : paper ; 199 x 105 (138 x 60) mm. bound to 199 x 110 mm.
- Format:
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Description:
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- 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).
- Publisher:
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- [1787]
- Subject:
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- Islamic magic—Early works to 1800
- Fortune-telling—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
- Arabic alphabet—Symbolic aspects—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Title sort:
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- Sharḥ Manẓūmat Kashf al-rān fī al-zāyirjah ... [etc.].
- Spatial:
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- New Jersey
- Binding note:
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- Red paper with embossed vegetal motif pasted on paper pasteboards. Blue pastedowns.
- Provenance:
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- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
- Source acquisition:
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- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References:
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- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 941, 942, 949, 950
- Created:
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- 1787-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1787
- Abstract:
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- Volume comprising four texts on occult sciences (fortune-telling, talismans, divination).
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/0g354f276
- Location:
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- HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 542H
- HSVM Electronic Resource
- ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 542H
- ELF1 Electronic Resource
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Type:
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- Early works to 1800
- Range label:
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- Sharḥ Manẓūmat Kashf al-rān fī al-zāyirjah
- Sharḥ bayt min Manẓūmat Kashf al-rān
- Bāb fī ḥall al-ṭilasm
- al-Durrah al-muntakhabah
- Tables
- Fāʼidah
- Charts
- al-Wafq al-sharīf
- Tables
- Fāʼidah
- Contents:
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- 1. fol. 1a-15b : Sharḥ Manẓūmat Kashf al-rān fī al-zāyirjah.
- 2. fol. 16a-18b : Sharḥ bayt min Manẓūmat Kashf al-rān / Muḥammad al-Ghamrī.
- 3. fol. 19b-23a : Bāb fī ḥall al-ṭilasm wa-īḍāḥ al-sirr al-mubham / [Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghamrī al-Wāsiṭī].
- 4. fol. 23b-25b : al-Durrah al-muntakhabah fī al-suʼālāt al-muntasibah.
- 5. fol. 26a-28a : [Tables with numbers and letters].
- 6. fol. 29a : Fāʼidah [on the ascendant (al-ṭawāliʻ al-falakīyah)].
- 7. fol. 29b-34b : [Blank].
- 8. fol. 35a : [Charts with numbers and a heading "10"].
- 9. fol. 35b : Hādhā al-wafq al-sharīf al-mukhammas khālī al-wasaṭ qad nzlt fīhā qawluhu taʻālā ... [etc.], with a chart.
- 10. fol. 36a-37b : [Blank].
- 11. fol. 38a-39a : [Tables with numbers].
- 12. fol. 39b : Fāʼidah.
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