al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah : manuscript
الأسرار الربانية : مخطوطة
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Description
- Title
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al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah : manuscript
الأسرار الربانية : مخطوطة - Creator
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Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225
بوني، أحمد بن علي، -1225 - Published / Created
- 1715.
- Publication Place
- Place not identified
- Abstract
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"al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah" (Divine secrets), a treatise on magic and the occult, employing the letters of the Arabic alphabet and magic squares and circles, by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī (died 1225), a well-known Ṣūfī, of North-African origin, who authored works on Sufism and "ʻilm al-ḥurūf" (science of letters) and died in Cairo; his "nisbah" (affiliation) is to Būnah (Bône, Algeria). Copied in the year 1127 of the Hijrah (1715). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned
- Description
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In Arabic.
Title from folio 1a and the colophon.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī adāra bi-yad al-asrār laṭāʼif aflāk al-malakūtīyāt, wa-abraza min khidhr [khidr] al-ghayb shumūs al-maʻārif li-dhawī al-ḥaqāʼiq al-ilāhīyāt, wa-aṭlaʻa min baḥr al-nūr al-aʻlá nafāʼis jawāhir al-ʻuqūl al-nūrānīyāt, wa-aḥkama iḥkām aḥkām tadawwiru dawāʼir al-akwān bi-al-ḥurūf al-iḥāṭīyāt, al-badīʻ alladhī abdaʻa ibdāʻ ṣuwarihā fī alwāḥ arwāḥ al-ʻawālim al-ʻulwīyāt wa-al-suflīyāt, al-muṣawwir alladhī ṣawwara kunh maʻānīhā fī ʻarsh al-nafs al-wāḥidah, fa-ẓaharat fī dhawāt al-anfus al-mutaʻaddidāt ..."
Secundo folio: al-tajallīyāt, fa-ḥamdan ʻalá hādhihi al-niʻmah.
15.2 x 20.5 cm; written surface: 10 x 16 cm; 19 lines per page.
Binding: In cardboard cover with dark brown leather on spine.
In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; some headings and markings in red; many magic squres and circles; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords.
On folios 1a (in pencil): "al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah lil-Būnī."
On folio 1a: A statement by a reader/owner: "Naẓara fīhi wa-taʼammala maʻāniyahu, dāʻiyan li-ḥāwīhi an yaftaḥa Allāh ʻalayhi futūḥ al-ʻārifīn bi-jāh al-Nabī al-amīn, ṣallá Allāh taʻālá ʻalayhi wa-sallam. Āmīn."
Colophon: "Tammat hādhihi al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah. Wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb. Sanat 1127."
Translation of the colophon: "These Divine secrets are completed. God is more knowledgeable of what is correct. The year 1127 [of the Hijrah = 1715]." - Provenance
- Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
- Extent
- 1 volume (65 leaves) ; 21 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Arabic
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 557
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic 18th century
Arabic manuscripts - Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Name)
- Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225.
- Subject (Topic)
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Arabic alphabet
Islamic magic
Islamic occultism
Magic squares - Subjects
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Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225
Arabic alphabet > Early works to 1800
Islamic magic > Early works to 1800
Islamic occultism > Early works to 1800
Magic squares > Early works to 1800
18th century
Arabic manuscripts
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī, al-Asrār al-Rabbānīyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 14117162
- Object ID (OID)
- 33341341
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