Item Summary

Treatise on astral magic, dealing with the days of the week, the beginning of the year, and natural phenomena such as thunder, eclipses, etc. in conjunction with astral revolutions. A text with the same title and similar content is attributed to Hermes Trismegistus in Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 547H.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الملحمة المخبرة
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Malḥamah al-mukhbirah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 151L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cc08hf673
Publisher
[1744]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1744
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 40 leaves : paper ; 220 x 158 (152 x 115) mm. bound to 220 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, 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., 961
Ullmann, M. Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften, p. 293.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-30a : Kitāb al-Malḥamah al-mukhbirah.
2. fol. 30b-39b : Kitāb al-Malḥamah.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (fol. 1a).
17 long lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with red for over-lining and headings. European glazed paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each folio. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. On a modern label on the lower cover, inscription in Roman characters: "T.G. 6".
The copy contains two texts with the same title, with no further indication. The second text is incomplete at end.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 41 ; i (blank) + 39 + i (blank).
Copied in Muḥarram 1157 by Muḥammad ibn Shaykh ʻAbd al-Jamīl (colophon text or part 1, fol. 30a).
Incipit (fol. 1a): بسم ... الحَمد للّه يب العالمين والصلوة والتسليم علي قاءيد الغر(؟) المحجلينَ(؟) محمد واله وصحبه الطيبين الطاهرين اما بعد قال دانيال عليه السَّلام احببت ان ابين للناس طريق واضح في الاخبار الايام والشهور العربية فقلت يوم السبت ان دخل فيه المحرم
Explicit (fol. 30a): وتزيد علي المجموع خمست يصير المجموع خمسه وعشرين نقول كانت الشمس بالحمل والقمر قد طلع من الاسد ودخل في السنبله والله اعلم تمت
Incipit (fol. 30b): كتاب الملحمه مرويت عن دانيال عليه السلام فاول ما نقول علي كسوف الشمس نيسان قال دانيال عليه السلام اذا انكسفت الشمس في عشر الاول من شهر نيسان بالشمسية في ناحية المشرق
Explicit (fol. 39b): \\ الشمال وناحيت دمشق خوف وفتن ويكون بناحيت القبله رخص وطذا يكون علي ناحيت
Binding Note
Upper and lower covers of red leather over paper pasteboards, with a similar blind-tooled outerframe made of a guilloche and several fillets. Doublure of brown and beige embossed paper with a floral motif. Repaired.

Discovery Information

Subject
Daniel (Biblical figure)
Predictive astrology—Islamic empire—Early works to 1800
Astrology, Arab—Early works to 1800
Hermetism—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
86

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3db2a21e-d969-4e57-aaf1-e85be052595b/manifest