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1. Amulet : manuscript
- Published / Created:
- 18th or 19th century.
- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS suppl. 595
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- An amulet on long scroll of vellum or snake skin, rolled around a central axis into a silver hexagonal tube with a cap; niello etched in an arabesque pattern in gold, with three loops where a chain can go through, so that it can be worn as a necklace. The scroll is written in a long central column surrounded by eight different rectangular compartments in different colors. The central column contains Surat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97), followed by Surāt al-Fātiḥat (Qurʼan: Chapter 1), followed by the Creator's verse of Sūrat al-Ḥajj (Qurʼan: Chapter 22:65), followed by a long invocation asking God for help and guidance, followed by a Shiʻī invocation asking for the intecession of Imām ʻAlī, followed by a magic square. The amulet is meant to have magical powers to protect the owner. Name of copyist (and/or creator) and place and date of copying/and or production not mentioned, probably from the 18th or 19th century
- Description:
- In Arabic., Incipit: Starts with Sūrat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97): "Innā anzalnāhu fī Laylat al-Qadr ...", Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., 39.5 x 6 cm., and The central part of the amulet is written in ruqʻah/naskh script and the compartments in thulth script, in black, blue, red and gold.
- Subject (Topic):
- Amulets (Islam), Islamic magic, Prayer, and Islam
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Amulet : manuscript
2. Calendar : manuscript
- Published / Created:
- 19th century.
- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS suppl. 613
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- An elaborate astronomical calendar consisting of one long scroll. It was made by an astronomer (name not given) for the Hijrī year 1259 (1859-1860). On one side, it is written in the form of tables, on the other side is a list of different categories of male and female personal Islamic names arranged alphabetically. Beside the months and days, it gives the times of prayers, the times of fasting and breaking the fast during Ramaḍān, the direction to the holy city of Mecca "qiblah", and personal reading of one's fortune. Written by al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj ʻAbd Allāh al-Ṭarsūsī (could not be identified) who may also have been the author
- Description:
- In Ottoman Turkish and Arabic., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., 108 x 10.8 cm., and In naskh/ruqʻah script in black, gold and red ink on white paper.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Arab, Fortune-telling by names, Islamic calendar, Names, Personal, Islamic, Prayer, Islam, Qiblah, and Ramadan
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendar : manuscript
3. Kitāb Adab al-kātib : manuscript and كتاب أدب الكاتب : مخطوطة
- Creator:
- Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889?, author
ابن قتيبة، عبد الله بن مسلم، 828-889؟ author - Published / Created:
- 19th century.
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 212
- Image Count:
- 140
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, containing ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim Ibn Qutaybah's Kitāb Adab al-kātib, a Manual of good style and lexicography for scribes
- Alternative Title:
- Adab al-kātib 880-02, Adab al-kātib, أدب الكاتب 240-02/r, and أدب الكاتب
- Description:
- In Arabic., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. Qāla Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutaybah, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá: Ammā baʻda ḥamd Allāh bi-jamīʻ maḥāmidihi, wa-al-thanāʼ ʻalayhi bimā huwa ahluhu, wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Rasūlihi al-Muṣṭafá wa-ālihi, fa-innī raʼaytu akthara ahl zamāninā hādhā ʻan sabīl al-adab nākibīn, wa-min ismihi mutaṭayyirīn wa-li-ahlihi kārihīn. Ammā al-nāshiʼ minhum fa-rāghib ʻan al-taʻlīm ...", Script: Modern (19th century) calligraphic naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in colors on leaf 2 verso. Leaves 91-135 in another less careful hand., Binding: Modern library binding., Decoration: Frames outlined in red and blue ink. Rubrication., Foliated on every fifth leaf in modern ink., and Colophon: "Wa-hādhā ākhir kitāb Taqwīm al-lisān. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Tamma bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ʻawnihi wa-ḥusn tawfīqih. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad al-Nabī al-Ummī, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Āmīn. M."
- Subject (Topic):
- Arabic language and Style
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Kitāb Adab al-kātib : manuscript, كتاب أدب الكاتب : مخطوطة
4. Kitāb Khaṣāʼiṣ al-ʻArabīyah. manuscript / Al-Juzʼ al-awwal and كتاب خصائص العربية. مخطوطة / الجزء الأول
- Creator:
- Ibn Jinnī, Abū al-Fatḥ ʻUthmān, -1002, author
ابن جني، أبو الفتح عثمان، -1002, author - Published / Created:
- 1891.
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 44
- Image Count:
- 309
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Treatise on Arabic grammar. Preceded by 6 leaves of notes, including table of contents and a note in French
- Alternative Title:
- Khaṣāʼiṣ al-ʻArabīyah, Khaṣāʼiṣ al-ʻArabīyah fī ʻilm al-naḥw, خصائص العربية, and خصائص العربية في علم النحو
- Description:
- Copied in A.H. 1308 (A.D. 1891)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi tammim. al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-wāḥid al-ʻadl al-qadīm. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá ṣafwatihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-muntakhabīn, wa-ʻalayhi wa-ʻalayhim al-salām ajmaʻīn ...", Text in Arabic; notes in Arabic and French., That this is the first juzʼ only is clear from leaf 299 verso and from the colophon on leaf 309 verso; the colophon, mentioning the end of the 2d juzʼ, is taken from another manuscript in which this first juzʼ was divided into two parts., Script: Calligraphic naskhī, in red, green, blue, and black., Binding: Modern library binding., Other juzʼs wanting., and Colophon: "Ṣāra taṣḥīḥ hādhihi al-nuskhah wa-muqābalatuhā ʻalá al-nuskhah allatī nuqilat minhā awwalan, wa-ṣuḥḥiḥat wa-qūbilat ʻalá nuskhah aqdam min al-nuskhah al-ūlá, tārīkhuhā sanat 430, thalāthīn wa-arbʻmiʼah, kiltā al-nuskhatayn bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah al-Miṣrīyah, jaʻalahā Allāh ʻāmirah ilá muntahá al-zamān, wa-ḥafiẓahā min kull sūʼ fī kull waqt wa-awān, mā tajaddada al-ʻaṣr wa-taʻāqaba al-malawān. 1308, 22 Sh [Shaʻbān], 1891, ghurrat Abrīl. Kātibuhu Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khūjah. M."
- Subject (Topic):
- Arabic language and Grammar
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Kitāb Khaṣāʼiṣ al-ʻArabīyah. manuscript / Al-Juzʼ al-awwal, كتاب خصائص العربية. مخطوطة / الجزء الأول
5. Kitāb al-Ashribah wa-dhikr ikhtilāf al-nās fīhā : manuscript and كتاب الأشربة وذكر اختلاف الناس فيها : مخطوطة
- Creator:
- Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889?, author
ابن قتيبة، عبد الله بن مسلم، 828-889?, author - Published / Created:
- 1892.
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 330
- Image Count:
- 40
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, containing ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutaybah's Kitāb al-Ashribah, treatise on forbidden and permitted beverages
- Alternative Title:
- Ashribah 880-02, Ashribah, أشربة 240-02/r, and أشربة
- Description:
- Copied from a manuscript in the Khedivial library, Cairo in A.H. 1309 (A.D. 1892)., In Arabic., Romanization supplied by cataloger., On folio 1a: "Kitāb al-Ashribah wa-dhikr ikhtilāf al-nās fīhā taʼlīf Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutaybah, ʻafá Allāh taʻālá ʻanhu. Āmīn. M.M. Riwāyat al-Ḥusayn ibn Muẓaffar ibn Aḥmad ibn Kundāj ʻan Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Jaʻfar ibn Durustawayh al-Naḥwī ʻan Abī Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Bayyiʻ.", Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Akhbaranā al-Shaykh Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Bayyiʻ fīmā adhina lanā an narwiyahu ʻanhu, qāla akhbaranā Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn Kundāj al-Bazzāz qirāʼatan ʻalayhi, qāla akhbaranā Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Jaʻfar ibn Durustawayh al-Naḥwī qirāʼatan ʻalayhi qāla: Qāla Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutaybah al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī hadānā li-dīnihi al-murtaḍá ...", Script: Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black., Binding: Modern library binding., Decoration: Rubricated., and Colophon: "Tamma Kitāb al-Ashribah wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá ashraf al-mursalīn, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn. Āmīn. Tamm. Balagha muqābalatan jayyidah. Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khūjah. Nuqila min nuskhat al-aṣl min al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah al-Miṣrīyah al-kāʼinah bi-Sarāy Darb al-Jamāmīz al-maḥmīyah, numrah 166 majāmīʻ, fī yawm al-Ithnayn, 29 Shaʻbān, sanat 1309 Hijrīyah, al-muwāfiq 28 Mārth, sanat 1892 Milādīyah, ʻalá yad al-faqīr ilá Rabbihi al-Ghanī, Muḥammad al-Laythī, ghufira la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi."
- Subject (Topic):
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Religious aspects, Islam, Temperance and Islam, Liquor laws (Islamic law), and Drunkenness (Islamic law)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Kitāb al-Ashribah wa-dhikr ikhtilāf al-nās fīhā : manuscript, كتاب الأشربة وذكر اختلاف الناس فيها : مخطوطة
6. Prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection : manuscript
- Published / Created:
- 1850 or 1851.
- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS suppl. 594
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Collection of prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection from the enemies, with many verses from the Qurʼān. Name of the author not mentioned. Copied and illuminated in 1267 Hijrī (1850 or 1851) by the calligrapher al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir nicknamed "Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān" (Memorizer of the Qurʼān). Place of copying not mentioned
- Description:
- In Arabic., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Īyāka naʻbudu wa-īyāka nastaʻīn. Ihdinā al-ṣirāṭa al-mustaqīm, ṣirāṭa alladhīna anʻamta ʻalayhim, ghayr al-maghḍūbi ʻalayhim wa-lā al-ḍāllīn ...", Secundo folio: nunjī al-muʼminīn., 10 x 16 cm; written surface: 5 x 9 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: Bound in contemporary blue wrapper with flap; both covers beautifully hand-decorated in gilt., In beautiful naskh script, in black ink on white paper, keywords in red; the opening page is illuminated with a handsome heading in gold, blue, rose, and other colors; there are also four different medallions on the margins in gold, blue and other colors (folios 1b, 5a, 9a, 11a); catchwords; text within gold frame., Text folios 1b-11b., Interspersed in the text is an invocatory refrain, repeated ten times, in red ink: "Aʻdāʼunā lan yaṣilū ilaynā bi-al-nafs wa-lā bi-al-wāsiṭah, lā qudrata lahum ʻalá īṣāl al-sūʼ ilaynā bi-ḥāl min al-aḥwāl" (Our enemies will not be able to reach us, neither in person nor by proxy. They have no power to inflict harm on us under any circumstances)., Colophon: "Katabahu al-mudhnib al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim min talāmīdh Muḥammad Dhākr [al-mulaqqab] bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān, ghufira la-humā, sanat 1267 H.", and Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the guilty al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir [nicknamed] Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān [Memorizer of the Qurʼān], may God forgive both of them, in the year 1267 Hijrī [1850 or 1851]."
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Invocation, Religious aspects, Islam, and Prayer
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection : manuscript
7. Qayd al-jāmiʻ / 1808 and قيد الجامع / 1808
- Creator:
- Mahfanī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad
مهفني، الحسين بن أحمد - Call Number:
- Arabic MSS 156
- Image Count:
- 36
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Short manual of the law of marriage, Preceded by 1 page of notes, and Copied in A.H. 1223 (A.D. 1808).
- Alternative Title:
- Arkān al-nikāḥ and أركان النكاح
- Description:
- Also known as: Arkān al-nikāḥ (Brockelmann, S II, p. 628, taken from Ahlwardt, 4681, where it is made up)., The author is a Javanese, and is presumably of the Shafiʻi persuasion (cf. Brockelmann, II, 422)., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-Malik al-Dayyān ... Qāla ... Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Mahfanī ... Ammā baʻd, fa-qad saʼalanī baʻḍ aḥibbāʼī ... an uṣannifa lahum kitāban mukhtaṣaran nāfiʻan fī arkān al-nikāḥ ...", Fair naskhī, in red and black., With: 1 other title., Colophon: "Tammat al-kitāb, taʼrīkh yawm al-Khamīs, al-khāmis min shahr Jumād al-Awwal, min sanat thalāth wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʼatayn baʻd al-alf.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed on Thursday, 5 Jumād al-Awwal of the year 1223 [of the Hijrah = 29 June 1808]."
- Subject (Name):
- Mahfanī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad.
- Subject (Topic):
- Marriage (Islamic law) and Shafiites
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Qayd al-jāmiʻ / 1808, قيد الجامع / 1808
8. Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá : manuscript and شمس المعارف الكبرى : مخطوطة
- Creator:
- Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225
بوني، أحمد بن علي، -1225 - Published / Created:
- 1874.
- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS suppl. 759
- Image Count:
- 528
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá (Larger Sun of knowledge), by Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī (died 1225), a well-known Ṣufī scholar from the city of Būnah (Bône), now ʻAnnābah (Annaba, Algeria), who died in Cairo. This work is designated "al-kubrá" (the larger) to distinguish it from the author's two other treatises: "al-wusṭá"́ (the middle) and "al-ṣughrá" (the smaller). It is also listed in the text under the title "Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif" (Sun of knowledge and intricacies of diviners), a treatise on magic, alchemy, astrology, divination, Islamic occultism, the name of God (including 'al-Asmāʼ al-Ḥusná', the 99 beautiful names of God), the magical use of the Arabic Alphabet, and talismans. The present work is a lithographed edition, printed from an original copy from India, in four parts, as follows: al-Juzʼ al-awwal (Part one: Pages 1-132), al-Juzʼ al-thānī (Part two: pages 1-116), al-Juzʼ al-thālith (Part three: pages 1-124), al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ (Part four: Pages 1-148), followed by an index of contents for the four parts (Pages 1-7). The work was printed on 20 Shawwāl, 1291 of the Hijrah (30 November, 1874). Place and name of the printer not mentioned
- Alternative Title:
- Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif and شمس المعارف ولطائف العوارف
- Description:
- In Arabic., Title from cover., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Shahādat azal, fa-min nūr hādhihi al-shahādah ightarafa al-muṣannifūn ʻilman. Fa-ifham dhālik. Wa-al-tartīb al-abadī fī al-shahādatayn al-muttaṣilatayn bi-al-malāʼikah al-kirām. Wa-awwal al-ʻilm fa-hādhihi shahādat al-abad. Fa-man fahima sirr hātayn al-shahādatayn shāhad al-malakūtayn wa-mā awdaʻāhu bi-sirr al-ittiṣāl bi-al-kashfīyāt ...", Secundo folio: Ammā baʻd, fa-lil-ḥaqq aʻlām., 16.5 x 23.5 cm; written surface: 12 x 20 cm; 31 lines per page., Binding: In green cardboard cover and dark brown paper on the spine., In naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; many illustrations and magic squares; text within double frames; catchwords. At the head of the opening page of each of the four parts is a decorative design., On cover: "Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá", printed in silver., On page 1 of al-Juzʼ al-awwal: "Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif, fī arbaʻat ajzāʼ, lil-Quṭb al-Imām Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī, wa-bi-nihāyat al-arbaʻat kutub, [al-kutub] al-ātiyah: 1. Kitāb Mīzān al-ʻadl fī maqāṣid aḥkām al-raml. 2. Kitāb Fawātiḥ al-raghāʼib fī khuṣūṣīyāt awqāt al-kawākib. 3. Kitāb Zahr al-murūj fī dalāʼil al-burūj. 4. Kitāb Laṭāʼif al-ishārah fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-kawākib al-sayyārah." "Maṭbūʻ ʻalá al-nuskhah al-Hindīyah al-aṣlīyah." These four books are not included in this codex and seem to serve as an advertisement for works to follow., al-Juzʼ al-thānī (Part two), starts with: "al-Faṣl al-khāmis ʻashar. Fī al-shurūṭ al-lāzimah li-baʻḍ dūna baʻḍ fī al-bidāyāt wa-al-nihāyāt.", al-Juzʼ al-thālith (Part three), starts, after al-Basmalah, with: "al-Faṣl al-ḥādī wa-al-ʻishrūn. Fī Asmāʼ Allāh al-Ḥusná, wa-anmāṭihā, wa-mā li-kull namaṭ min al-daʻawāt.", al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ (Part four), starts, after al-Basmalah, with: "al-Faṣl al-thāmin wa-al-thalāthūn. Fī istikhdāmāt al-ḥurūf wa-khalawātihā.", Colophon: "Tamma Kitāb Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá lil-Imām al-Būnī fī ʻishrīn min Shawwāl, sanat 1291 Hijrīyah. Wa-lammā kādat shams ṭabʻihā tabzughu lil-ṭulūʻ arrakhahā baʻḍ al-madmīyīn [al-mādiḥīn] bi-qawlihi, shiʻr [in Ḥisāb al-jummal (Alphabetical reckoninig)]: ... Wa-fīhā ará al-tārīkh jāda bi-qawlihi // yufīdu al-amānī ṭabʻu Shams al-maʻārif. Sanat 1291.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book 'Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá' of al-Imām al-Būnī was completed on 20 Shawwal, 1291 of the Hijrah [30 November, 1874]. When the sun of its printing started to rise, someone praised it and mentioned the date of printing, in verse [using Ḥisāb al-jummal "Alphabetical reckoning"], saying: ... In it I see the date, saying generously: The printing of Shams al-maʻarif satisfies the wishes. The year 1291."
- Subject (Name):
- Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Arabic alphabet, Astrology, Divination, God (Islam), Name, Islamic magic, Islamic occultism, Lithographed books, Magic, and Talismans
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá : manuscript, شمس المعارف الكبرى : مخطوطة
9. Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār : manuscript and شموس الأنوار وكنوز الأسرار : مخطوطة
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1336
ابن الحاج، محمد بن محمد، -1336 - Published / Created:
- 1887.
- Call Number:
- Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 549
- Image Count:
- 212
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- "Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār" (Suns of lights and treasures of secrets), a treatise on Islamic magic and occultism, by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī al-Fāsī al-ʻAbdarī, Abū ʻAbd Allāh (died 1336), a Mālikī Islamic law scholar, from al-Maghrib (North Africa), who came to Egypt and died in Cairo. Copied on Friday, 2 Jumād al-Ākhir, 1304 (26 February, 1887) by Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī. Place of copying not mentioned
- Alternative Title:
- Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār and كتاب شموس الأنوار وكنوز الأسرار
- Description:
- In Arabic., Title from folio 1b., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī awdaʻa ruqūm al-ḥurūf badāʼiʻ asrārih, wa-rakkaba minhā maʻāniya asmāʼih, wa-fajjara minhā yanābīʻ al-aʻdād wa-buḥūr al-awfāq bi-mawāhib anwārih, wa-wakkala rūḥānīyatan taqūmu wa-takhdumu arbābahā fī jamīʻ al-maṭālib, tadullu bi-surʻatihā ʻalá faradānīyatihi, fa-fataḥa bisāṭ al-uns, wa-aṭlaʻa man shāʼa min al-ins ʻalá ʻajāʼib malakūtihā mimman akhlaṣa min ʻibādih ...", Secundo folio: ward wa-misk alf marrah., 15 x 22 cm; written surface: 9 x 17.7 cm; 25 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather with flap; cover and flap embossed with central medallion., In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in purple; many magic squares and a magic circle; on some leaves a seal with the phrase "Dawāwīn maṣraf"; some corrections on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār li-Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī al-Maghribī, ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl, wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá kull ḥāl. M.", On folio 1b: "... wa-sammaytuhā bi-Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār ...", Colophon: "Tamma bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ʻawnih. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min hādhā al-kitāb fī yawm al-Jumʻah al-mubārak, al-muwāfiq ithnayn Jumād al-Ākhir, sanat 1304, arbaʻah wa-thalāthmiʼah wa-alf, min al-Hijrah al-Nabawīyah, ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-atamm al-salām. Wa-kāna dhālika ʻalá yad kātibihi wa-nāqilihi al-faqīr ilá al-Karīm al-Wahhāb, ʻabduhu Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-lil-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn. Āmīn. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, al-Nabī al-ummī, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Āmīn. M.", and Translation of the colophon: "It is completed by the praise of God and His help. The copying of this book was completed on blessed Friday, 2 Jumād al-Ākhir, 1304 of the Hijrah of the Prophet, may the best prayer and the most perfect peace be upon Him. Copied and transcribed by the hand of the poor to the Generous and Abundant Giving One, His servant, Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī, may God forgive him, his parents and all Muslims. Amen. Amen. Praise be to God Lord of the Universe. May God pray on our Master Muḥammad, the Illiterate Prophet, and on his family and companions and grant them peace. Amen. M."
- Subject (Name):
- Ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1336.
- Subject (Topic):
- Islamic magic and Occultism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār : manuscript, شموس الأنوار وكنوز الأسرار : مخطوطة
