Item Summary

Text is a commentary on a lost poem on numerology by al-Mirightī. The original commentary is also apparently lost.

Descriptive Information

Title
اتحاف المنصف السعيد بشرح قصيدة محمد بن سعيد بن سعيد / تأليف محمد بن حب الله بن الفاضل بن موسى بن يعقوب اليعقوبي.
Transliterated Title
Itḥāf al-munṣif al-saʻīd bi-sharḥ qaṣīdat Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd ibn Saʻīd / taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn Ḥubb Allāh ibn al-Fāḍil ibn Mūsá ibn Yaʻqūb al-Yaʻqūbī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 301
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcrj430g54g
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1892
Format
Manuscript
Extent
[39] p. (18 lines), bound ; 23 cm.
Provenance
AM 1994-77.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Text begins on f. 1b.
Leaves 11-20 blank.
Copyist identified in colophon as Sulaymān ibn Yūnus al-Jahanī. Stamp of ownership bears name: Ḥusnī (1326 H).
Ms. in naskh script on unglazed paper ruled with blue lines and of modern manufacture. 22.1 x 17.5 cm. Text in black ink with lines of subject poem and key words in purple. Subject poem occasionally vocalized. Catchwords. Three marginal notations. Only 10 f. bear text; the reminder are blank. There appears to be one leaf missing after f. 7. F. 10b bears a jadwal or other type of table.
Paper is unglazed mass produced stock. Ruled lines in blue ink. Slightly discolored. Some minor tears and smudges. Paper is acidic. Otherwise in good condition.
Binding is green cloth, soft cover. Not contemporary with text.

Discovery Information

Subject
Mirightī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd 1598 or 1599-1678 or 1679—Mukhammis Khālī al-wasaṭ
Islamic magic
Magic squares
Talismans—Islamic countries

Physical Characteristics

File Count
44

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/495b1dcc-bd1c-4505-9dee-a0993ffa8ce2/manifest