• شمس المعارف ولطائف العوارف
  • Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif

Language:
  • Arabic
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 258Y
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 133 leaves : paper, ill. ; 179 x 132 (115 x 90) mm. bound to 182 x 140 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from colophon (fol. 132a).
  • 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and tables. On some fol., vocalization in brown ink (see fol. 85b-98b). Oriental glazed paper with no chain or laid lines visible. Notes in the margin. According to the catchwords, some leaves are missing (see between fol. 32 and 33). Seal on upper cover and on fol. 1a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. "104Y" noted in red pencil and "104Y" on a label on the upper cover. Same label on the spine. "ELS no. 258 [next line, in Arabic] Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif [next line in Western numerals] 873" on a label pasted on the upper cover and on the pastedown of the lower cover.
  • The first leaf (originally fol. 1) has been pasted on the back of the upper cover.
  • Copied on Tuesday 14 Muḥarram 873 (colophon, fol. 132a).
  • Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة القدوة المحقق محيي الدين ابو العباس احمد بن الشيخ الاجل المقرى الى الحسن على يوسف الردسى البونى رح[...] الحمد لله الدى اطلع شمس المعرفه من عيب الغيب حياة للبصاير ونورا للابصار
  • Explicit: من كل العوايق إنك انت الخلّاق الرزّاق اللهم كما رضيت وقدّرت حتّى لا يحجب تعجيل ما اخرت ولا تاخير ما عجلت وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا ابدا
Publisher:
  • [1468]
Subject:
  • Divination—Early works to 1800
  • Astrology, Arab—Early works to 1800
  • Islamic occultism—Early works to 1800
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Date:
  • 1468
Author:
  • Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225
Abstract:
  • Short recension of an encyclopaedia of occult sciences, with tables, magical squares and talismans, divided into unnumbered chapters (faṣl). Several lacunae.
Creator:
  • Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225
  • بوني، احمد بن علي
Collections:
  • Robert Garrett
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/th83kz367
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
References:
  • Mach, R. Yahuda, 5202
  • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 497 (5/3)
  • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 910 (6/3)
  • Ullmann, M. Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften, p. 390-391
  • Fahd, T. Divination, p. 230-231
Binding note:
  • Cloth over paper pasteboard (only the lower cover is extant).
Provenance:
  • Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Location:
  • HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 258Y
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 258Y
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
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