Item Summary

Treatise on ʻilm al-ḥurūf, with tables and charts. The text is followed by a text on the degrees of numbers (marātib al-aʻdād), tables of the correspondance between letters and signs of the zodiac, magic squares, and the numbers associated with the Qurʼān.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب تيسير المطالب في اسرار الحروف / تأليف الشيخ الامام العلامة شيخ الطريقة ذي الشريعة والحقيقة والفنون الباهرة والانوار المتظاهرة ابي عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن يعقوب الكومي نسباً التونسي مولداً
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Taysīr al-maṭālib fī asrār al-ḥurūf / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah shaykh al-ṭarīqah dhī al-sharīʻah wa-al-ḥaqīqah wa-al-funūn al-bāhirah wa-al-anwār al-mutaẓāhirah Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb al-Kūmī nasaban al-Tūnisī mawladan.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 361Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcvx021r32g
Publisher
[ 1607]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1605
Extent
112 leaves: paper, ill. ; 198 x 135 (132 x 80) mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement with seal, signed al-Sayyid Haytham(?) al-Ḥusaynī Sibṭ Abū al-ʻAbbās al-ḤRTīnī(?) on fol. 112b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 5176
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 253 (5/1)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 358/3
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Tables and charts in black and red ink. European glazed paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. A few marginal annotations. Inscription on fol. 1a (remedy?). Some fol. mended.
Copy completed on 4 Shaʻbān 1016 [Nov. 24, 1607] by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar al-Damsīsī (colophon, fol. 112b).
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام ابو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن يعقوب الكومي نسبا التونسي مولدا ... خير ما صدرت به الصحف الالهيات واشتملت عليه فواتح السور الاقدسيات حمد من احاط علمه بالجليات ... [2ب] ... وبعد فاولي ما ارتسم في الواح الاذهان وطرق اسماع ذوي العرفان
Explicit (fol. 97b): وآله الغرّ الكرام انهم اتقي العباد للآله وابر وصحبه الذين قاموا دونه حتى انطوي من الضلال ما انتشر تم الكتاب
Binding Note
Modern library binding, with paper pastedowns and free endpaper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Divination—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Arabic alphabet—Symbolic aspects—Early works to 1800
Islamic magic—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
232

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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