Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225 بوني، أحمد بن علي، -1225
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 93
Image Count:
700
Abstract:
Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif (also called "Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá" to distinguish it from the author's two other smaller treatises: al-wusṭa "the middle one" and al-ṣughrá "the little one"), a treatise on magic, alchemy, astrolog...
Alternative Title:
Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá and شمس المعارف الكبرى
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Arabic alphabet, Astrology, Divination, God (Islam), Name, Islamic magic, Islamic occultism, and Magic
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 ...
Alternative Title:
Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif and شمس المعارف ولطائف العوارف
Description:
In Arabic.
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
Manuscript, on paper, of Rūznāmah by an unidentified author. Includes calendars and conversion tables from the Islamic to the Gregorian calendar with marginal notes defining terms, referencing important historical events, and listing auspicious time...
Alternative Title:
Ghurranāmah and غره نامه
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Divination, Islamic calendar, and Manuscripts, Turkish
Cliff, Jer. Jeremiah?, apothecary at Tenterdon, Kent
Call Number:
Osborn c158
Image Count:
500
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of several hundred primarily religious or lighthearted entries, including poetry, recipes, sermons, epitaphs, extracts, and a treatise on the months and phases of the moon. The manuscript contains verses ...
Collection of treatises on magic, astrology, alchemy and Sufism: 1. On the magical qualities of the letters of the Arabic alphabet, their numerical values and their categorization into fire, air, water and earth letters, in Ottoman Turkish (folios1a-2...
Description:
In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Astrology, Magic, Magic squares, Numerology, Sufism, and Talismans
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of astrological information and a treatise on the signs of the zodiac, including lists of activities appropriate for each sign, and descriptions of the characteristics of those born under the inf...
Description:
In Middle English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Astrology, and English prose literature
Autograph manuscript notes and translations from chiefly Italian sources on the subject of tarot probably compiled by Abner Doubleday, circa 1870-1886, including extensive discussion of tarot in relation to the Cabala
Description:
Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) was a United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War, as well as a prominent member of the Theosophical Society.
Subject (Name):
Alliette, 1738-1791., Battista, Farinone., Belot, Jean., Burgoyne, Thomas H., Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795., Court de Gébelin, Antoine, 1725-1784., Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893., Fayolle, Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de, Comte de Mellet, 1727-1804., Johnson, Thomas Moore, 1851-1919., Kaplan, Stuart R., Lévi, Éliphas, 1810-1875., Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316., Moreau de Dammartin., Palmer-Thomas, R., Papus, 1865-1916., Postel, Guillaume, 1510-1581., and Saint-Martin, Louis-Claude de, 1743-1803.
