Item Summary

Treatise on geomancy comprising an introduction, five chapters (bāb) and a conclusion, mentioning al-Shaykh Khalaf al-Barbarī (see fol. 16b). Incomplete at end.

Descriptive Information

Title
بلوغ الوطر في اصول علم الاثر.
Transliterated Title
Bulūgh al-waṭar fī uṣūl ʻilm al-athar.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 549H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/70795771w
Publisher
[between 17--? and 18--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
20 leaves : paper ; 248 x 166 (180 x 90) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 963
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 2b-5b: al-Bāb al-awwal fī maʻrifat al-ashkāl wa-asmāʼihā.
2. fol. 5b-8a: al-Bāb al-thānī fī maʻrifat aḥkām al-buyūt ʻalá al-tafṣīl.
3. fol. 8a-20a: al-Bāb al-thālith fī taskīn al-ḥurūf wa-istikhrāj ʻadad ḥurūf al-ism baʻḍihā min baʻḍ.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, l. 5-6).
17 long lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of purple ink for headings and examples. The leaves have been frame-ruled. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Seems to be in the same hand as Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 548H.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 20 ; 1-2¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام علي ... وسلم وبعدفهذه نكت غريبة وفوايد جليلة صحيحة جمعتها من كتب المتقدمين
Explicit: وابربد لها الله من فرج بد كذلك اجتماع والتقي بلا خلاف
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Khalaf al-Barbarī 6th cent.?
Geomancy—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800
Divination—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
40

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/deb54990-56bf-4861-abd0-eef366bfb52d/manifest