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كتاب نهاية الادراك في اسرور الافلاك / لابي بكر الفارسي.
Kitāb Nihāyat al-idrāk fī asrūr al-aflāk / li-Abī Bakr al-Fārisī.
1696
A compendium of astrology in three divisions: (1) the universals, (2) the prohibitions, (3) the signs of the zodiac. With diagrams.
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A compendium of astrology in three divisions: (1) the universals, (2) the prohibitions, (3) the signs of the zodiac. With diagrams.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب نهاية الادراك في اسرور الافلاك / لابي بكر الفارسي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Nihāyat al-idrāk fī asrūr al-aflāk / li-Abī Bakr al-Fārisī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 503H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcxs55mp65v
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1696
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 50 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 205 x 152 (165 x 110) mm. bound to 203 x 152 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 971.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 396.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5888.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from caption (fol. 1a).
- One marginal comment. It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed in 606 [1209]. Notation on upper pastedown about Kashf al-ẓanūn's entry for the author.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 50 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition. MS is rare.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Sunday 25 Jumādá al-Akhir 1107 (fol. 50a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي ميز العقول حقايق قرايب صفته ... اما بعد فان الله تعالى لما افاض علي بفضله وشرفني بخدمة المقام ...
- Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تأليفها في يوم السبت المبارك ثالث عشر ين ربيع الاول سنة 606 والله تعالى اعلم. تم الفراغ من نسخ هذه الرسالة في يوم الاحد 25 جماد[ى] الاخر سنة 1107
- Binding Note
- Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Endbands.
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- 110
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- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/07f9ca59-7e50-4a98-bafb-fc25e5558d71/manifest