Descriptive Information

Title

اقاليم السبعة ذات الصور والتشابيه ... [الخ.]

Transliterated Title

Aqālīm al-sabʻah dhāt al-ṣuwar wa-al-tashābīh ... [etc.]

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2407Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcxw42nk405

Publisher

[1700-1799]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1700-1799

Format

Manuscript

Extent

54 leaves : paper, colored illustrations ; 223 x 152 (202-220 x 127-132) mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 5106, 5116, 5120.

Brockelmann, GAL, I, 655 (3: no. 4).

Gotha 1261/10.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. fol. 1b-37a: Aqālīm al-sabʻah dhāt al-ṣuwar wa-al-tashābīh. Leaves are disarranged and numbered in wrong sequence.

2. fol. 38b-47b: Maqālah min qawl Anbā Buṭrus usquf madīnat Atrīb wa-Amlīj. Followed by Ṣifat al-tadbīr ilāhī [sic] bi-hādhā al-ḥajar al-mukarram (fol. 39a-41b).

3. fol. 47b-54a: Risālah [fī maʻrifat al-ḥajar al-mukarram].

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

Layout: 20 lines per page.

Incipit: [الاقاليم السبعة] الحمد لله خالق عقول نفوس الروحانىة ... اما بعد اىها الواقف على کتابى هذا -- [مقالة من قول] قال هل ىا ابنى مدىنة بغىر اساس -- [رسالة في معرفة] الحمد لله الذى خلق من عالم الفساد بشرا وعظمه

Binding Note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in leather and paper with block-pressed design.

Discovery Information

Subject

Alchemy—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Illustrated works

diagrams

Physical Characteristics

File Count

121

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/467f2d1e-e830-4168-9641-5645d98043c7/manifest

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