Descriptive Information

Title

[Treatise on charms and talismans].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 591

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8336h195t

Publisher

[Iran?, 1483].

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1483

Format

Manuscript

Extent

26 leaves : paper, ill. ; 245 x 177 (170 x 125) mm. bound to 270 x 180 mm.

Source Acquisition

Purchase; Sam Fogg; 2006; AM2006-94.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

21 long lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red mainly for diagrams and charts. Marginal notes in a later hand; catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick oriental glazed paper; no chain line visible; thick vertical laid line visible. The pages have been trimmed so that parts of the marginalia and catchwords are cut off. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Excellent condition. The edges of the final leaf have been repaired (with loss of text of a later note).

Contains magic script (fol. 26b) and a long note on the campaigns of Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn (fol. 26b).

Copied by Ḥājjī ibn Jamāl al-Kātib al-Kāshī on 17 Rajab 888 (colophon, fol. 26b).

Incipit: في سقف جديد في الماء فانه يغور من حينه ووقته ويطرد لمن احسن عمله في كل وقت \\

Explicit: والامتزاج السابع ترسم في اليد في ساعة المشترى ويدخل على من يخافه فانه يامن شره ومقضى حواجه خ ك ع لا ط ى وهذا اخر ما وجدنا من كلام الشيخ في هذا المعنى وكذلك التقديم والتاخير في السورة والايات فكذلك وجدناه في الاصل المنقول منه النسخة ومكتوب عليها نظيرهذه الاشارة فليعلم ذلك

Binding Note

Brown stiffened leather.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic magic—Early works to 1800

Talismans—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Qurʼan—Use—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count

56

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f088de48-5f28-486a-a30d-d940c250543c/manifest

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