Descriptive Information

Title

كتاب عقد الفرائد فيما للمثلث من الفوائد / تاليف سيدي احمد الدمنهوري

Transliterated Title

Kitāb ʻIqd al-farāʾid fīmā lil-muthallath min al-fawāʾid / taʾlīf Sayyidī Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 540H

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/474299198

Publisher

[1734?]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1734

Format

Manuscript

Extent

40 leaves : paper, ill. ; 210 x 137 (150 x 90) mm. bound to 225 x 150 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., 945

Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 371 (9/10)

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 498 (9/10)

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (fol. 1a, later replacement).

21 long lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red for headings and keywords (sometimes overlined in red). Glazed European(?) paper. Two first folios are later replacements. The last fol. is mended with the text recopied on the repair (including the left part of the colophon). Inscription "132" in Western numerals corresponding to Brill's catalog written on the right upper corner of the upper cover pastedown.

Contains magical squares and talismans.

Copied on 3 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1147? ("[al-thālith] min al-sādis min a[l-sābiʻ min] al-khāmis min a[l-thānī] ʻashr min al-hijrah"; colophon, fol. 40b; partly written by a later hand).

Incipit: حمدا لمن وفق من اختاره خدمته والهمه بمحض اختياره دقايق الاسرار ولطايف حكمته وصلاة ... وبعد فيقول ... احمد الدمنهوري الحنفي المالكي الشافعي الحنبلي لما تفضل ذو الجلال والاكرام على الدولة القلية

Explicit: فاصبر حتى يفرغ الدخا[ن وعلامة الاجابة ان] السيبة تدور يمينا لك[ن لاته(؟) من تمام] العمل والله اعلم بال[صواب واليه] المرجع والماب

Binding Note

Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboard, with yellow, blue and red marbled paper pasted on the leather. Light cream paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic magic—Early works to 1800

Triangle—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

84

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e07f7df6-594c-421e-9820-bf2dae02bdf1/manifest

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