Item Summary

A work on astrology.

Descriptive Information

Title
[السر المکتوم في مخاطبة النجوم].
Transliterated Title
[al-Sirr al-maktūm fī mukhāṭabat al-nujūm].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 168L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcmp48sq39g
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
194 leaves : paper ; 224 x 111 (165 x 75) mm bound to 226 x 114 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 933.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 596/7.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5886.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
A few marginal notes. MS incomplete at beginning and end. The work is sometimes ascribed to Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan al-Maghribī al-Ḥarrālī. Label on upper cover "L no 106".
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 194 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpapers only: three crescents) ; MS in fair condition.
Incipit: في المقدمات الفصل الثاني في الطلسمات التي ذکرها ...
Ending: وتکون تلك النفوس الفلکية...
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Astrology, Arab—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
398

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f630abfe-3c8b-4809-b077-54d6fb1e799a/manifest