Descriptive Information

Title

كتاب الجواهر الخمس في ما يتعلق به من العبارة والاذكار والتقوى الى سلوك علم الحقيقة والتصوف.

Transliterated Title

Kitāb al-Jawāhir al-khams fī mā yataʻallaqu bi-hi min al-ʻibārah wa-al-adhkār wa-al-taqwá ilá sulūk ʻilm al-ḥaqīqah wa-al-taṣawwuf.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 760

Identifier

ark:/88435/dcgf06gh07f

Publisher

[1760]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1760

Extent

118 leaves : paper, ill. ; 241 x 157 (196 x 123) mm. bound to 242 x 164 mm.

Source Acquisition

Purchase; Worldwide Antiquarian, 29/07/2010 (2011-16).

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from fol. 1a.

Physical description: 27-28 lines per page; written in naskh script in black on white European glazed, laid paper. Rubrication and catchwords; text ruled in black. Numerous diagrams, tables, magic squares, and other mystical symbols. Fol. 88a contains a representation of the zodiac and fol. 104b contains a representation of the universe.

Origin: Copy completed by Sayyid Ḥusayn ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥabb Rummān al-Ḥarīrī on 17 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1174 (27 October 1760) (fol. 117b).

Binding Note

19th cent. red morocco, bottom of back cover repaired.

Discovery Information

Subject

Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800

Sufism—Early works to 1800

Islamic magic—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count

252

Institutional Information

Collection

Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4cdaae87-b89f-4288-9737-5d142b6d73b0/manifest

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