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كتاب الكواكب الدرية في الاصول الجفرية بالتمام والكمال
Kitāb al-Kawākib al-durrīyah fī al-uṣūl al-jafrīyah bi-al-tamām wa-al-kamāl.
1800-1899
Short treatise on the elements of divination, drawn chiefly from the works of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʻArabī (d. 1240), and comprising an introduction in 8 parts, a maṭlab, and a conclusion.
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Item Summary
Short treatise on the elements of divination, drawn chiefly from the works of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʻArabī (d. 1240), and comprising an introduction in 8 parts, a maṭlab, and a conclusion.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الكواكب الدرية في الاصول الجفرية بالتمام والكمال
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Kawākib al-durrīyah fī al-uṣūl al-jafrīyah bi-al-tamām wa-al-kamāl.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 545H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m613mx64g
- Publisher
- [18--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1800-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 30 leaves : paper, ill. ; 239 x 165 (188 x 97) mm. bound to 240 x 168 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 952
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 1042 (no. 47)
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text as Salīm al-Wāʻiẓ (fol. 1b).
- 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh using black ink and magenta. The text is framed in a single magenta line throughout. Contains charts. Glazed paper with watermark. Pagination in black ink using Arabic numerals between brackets in the center of the upper margin. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (with no fol. 4).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 30 ; 30¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
- Incipit: بسم ... الحمد للَّه الذي اودع اسرار الحادثات في كنوز الحروف والكميات وجعل الاعداد ظروف الواقعات ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الفقير سليم الواعظ لما انعم الله تعالي علي بكتب المادة وقرائتها
- Explicit: من الماء فالثابتةِ حروف ه ج ر ط ل فولدها الي تمام التوليد ثم اللقط منها تم
- Binding Note
- Upper and lower covers made of decorated paper over paper pasteboards.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 64
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/88f4cd82-020d-49d7-9d6c-f168528e2a0d/manifest