• كتاب عجايب مخلوقات
  • Kitāb-i ʻAjāʾib-i makhlūqāt.

Language:
  • Persian
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 349
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 147 leaves : paper, ill. ; 218 x 175 (140 x 110) mm. bound to 225 x 180 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from end of text (written with tāʾ marbūtah).
  • Physical description: 11 lines per page ; written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink. Arabic written in naskh. From fol. 50b on: written in nastaʻlīq in purple ink. Wove paper with embossed seal with inscription in Cyrillic on a few leaves. Annotations in English on the margins of the first leaves. Picture representing a young man placed at the end of the copy.
  • 56 illustrations in watercolor representing the signs of the Zodiac, demons linked to these signs, constellations, birth of stars, and archangels such as Mikāʾīl and Jibrāʾīl.
  • Origin: According to note on fol. 1a, copied in Iṣfahān, Shaʻbān 1324 H. [Sept.-Oct. 1906] by ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nāʾinī(?) al-Muṣāḥib. At the end of several texts accompanying the illustrations is the name Raṣṣād(?) B̄āshī, son of the late Jaʻfar, with dates ranging from 1330 to 1339 H. [1911 to 1921].
  • Incipit: بسم ... بكير از زير قدم او يكمشت خاك واين جعارا هفت بخواند ... بسم ... اللهم اله السموات والارض اعجل اعجل اعجل ارجع ارجع ارجع حب الخير
Publisher:
  • Iṣfahān, [1921]
Subject:
  • Islamic magic
  • Astrology, Iranian
  • Astrology, Arab
  • Talismans—Specimens
  • Monsters—Pictorial works—Specimens
  • Archangels—Pictorial works—Specimens
  • Zodiac—Pictorial works—Specimens
  • Constellations—Pictorial works—Specimens
  • Curiosities and wonders
  • Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Date:
  • 1921
Abstract:
  • Illustrated Persian manuscript on magic and astrology, including a book of spells describing incantation and talismans, and 56 painted illustrations.
Collections:
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/pc289j126
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
  • Iran
Binding note:
  • Blind stamped and tooled red leather.
Source acquisition:
  • Purchase; Hurst Gallery (Cambridge, Mass.) ; 1997
Location:
  • HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 349
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 349
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
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