Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
قبس الانوار وجامع الاسرار ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Qabs al-anwār wa-jāmiʻ al-asrār ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1080Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpg15br905
Publisher
[1800-1899]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
274 leaves : paper ; 218 x 158 (150-170 x 105-120) 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), 5167, 5168, 5185, 5187.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 327 (2: no. 1); S II, 328; 1042 (54);
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-78b: Qabs al-anwār wa-jāmiʻ al-asrār.
2. fol. 81b-: [Miscellaneous unidentified Turkish texts]
3. fol. 89a-209b: Faṣl al-khāmis wa-al-thalāthūn fī maʻrifat ʻilm al-zāʼirjah.
4. fol. 210b-213b: Mafātīḥ al-ghaybīyah wa-al-maṣābīḥ al-wahbīyah fī waḍʻ al-jafr al-jāmiʻ.
5. fol. 214b-217a: Risālah fī jadwal al-zamān.
6. fol. 217b-226a: Alwāḥ al-jawāhir.
7. fol. 226b-228a: Risālah fī al-ḥurūf.
8. fol. 240b-246a: Nūr al-sāṭiʻ bi-lawāmiʻ al-jafr al-jāmiʻ.
9. fol. 252a-256a: Risale li-Şeykh ʻAbdullah Salâh ed-Dîniye.
10. fol. 256b-270a: [Miscellaneous unidentified Turkish texts]
11. fol. 270b-271a: [Risālah fī al-jafr]. Arabic and Turkish
12. fol. 271b-272b: [Unidentified Turkish text]. Instructions for seeking intercession?
13. fol. 273a-274b: Risālah fī asrār al-ḥurūf.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.
Layout: 22-24 lines per page.
Incipit: [قبس الانوار] الحمد لله الملك الديان ... اما بعد فان البارى تعالى ابدع الموجودات -- [المفاتيح الغيبية] الحمد لله الذى کنز فى خزاين ... وبعد فهذه رشحية غيبية -- [الواح الجواهر] الحمد لله الذى خلق الانسان وهداه الى البيان -- [رسالة في الحروف] قال محمد بن قاسم لما سألنى بعض الاخوان ان اجمع لهم رسالة فى الحروف -- [نور الساطيع] الحمد لله الذى الهم وفهم ... وبعد فلما کان علم الجفر من اجل العلوم
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and blue marbled paper. Pink pastedowns and flyleaves with gold star design.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic alphabet—Symbolic aspects—Early works to 1800
Divination—Islamic countries
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
557

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7946e85a-4106-49b3-955e-0219477ffe2b/manifest