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Collection of Arabic texts on magic and theology.
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Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Manuscripts of the Islamic World offers a curated selection of extraordinary manuscripts hosted or held by Princeton University Library. The manuscripts are predominantly in Arabic, but there are also many in Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The manuscript digitizations here are a fraction of the full Manuscripts of the Islamic World collections, housed in Special Collections in Princeton's Firestone Library. Efforts are ongoing to make the manuscripts of these collections more accessible through conservation, catalog record updates, and digitization.
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- Publisher
- [17th-19th century?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 356L
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Collection of Arabic texts on magic and theology.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- علم الاوفاق
- Transliterated Title
- ʻIlm al-awfāq
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 356L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8k71nw609
- Publisher
- [17th-19th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1600-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 37 leaves : paper ; 210-222 x 155-168 (115-190 x 100-140) mm bound to 226 x 170 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1b-24b: Nubdhah min ʻilm tawfīq al-asmāʼ wa-taṣrīfihā / Muḥammad ibn Jalāl ibn Ẓāhir ibn Jalāl al-Dīn al-Khujandī al-Madanī. In three maqālah and a khātimah (Fī kayfīyat al-waḍʻ al-awfāq al-ʻadadīyah; Fī kayfīyat al-asmāʼ wa-ghayrihā fī al-awfāq; Fī bayān ṭarīq al-basṭ wa-taksīr). Missing folio(s) after 22.
- 2. fol. 25a-30b: [Unidentified fragment]. Includes sections on al-ḥaqq, al-wujūd and al-tawḥīd. Incomplete at beginning and end.
- 3. fol. 31a-37b: [Miscellaneous selections about magic squares and prayers]. Tables, magic squares and incomplete selections of text including Risālah fī ʻilm al-jafr.
- Notes
- Ms. composite codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "347 KE".
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 37 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19-28 lines per page.
- Description: Some use of red ink ; one folio tinted yellow ; watermarks (fol. 1-24: three crescents, roman-alphabet initials; fol. 25-30: hills, three crescents) ; MS in fair condition.
- Incipit: [نبذة من علم توفيق] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى وفق عباده لمعرفة خواص اسمائه ... وبعد فيقول العبد ... محمد بن جلال بن ظاهر بن جلال الدين الخجندى المدنى ... هذه المختصر الشريف نبذة من علم توفيق الاسمآء وتصريفها -- [Unidentifed text] ... عن الواحدة سابقة وعن الاخرى خاتمة فان تعرف ربك هذه المعرفة ...
- Ending: [نبذة من علم توفيق] اسم الرحمن يبقى 300 فخذ ثلث ذالك ... -- [Unidentified text] قال اذا فني فى ذات وهو مركب من اربع عناصر نظير اسمآء الوجود التي هي الاول وا...
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather and dark paper. Endbands.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 82
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f455431a-8132-418d-943f-e40cdc9c71f9/manifest