Descriptive Information

Title

كنه المراد في وفق الاعداد

Transliterated Title

Kunh al-murād fī wafq al-aʻdād.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 455

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9306sz364

Publisher

[between 17--? and 19--?]

Language

Persian

Date Created

1700-1999

Format

Manuscript

Extent

iii, 89, iii leaves: paper, ill. ; 250 x 160 (233 x 150) mm. bound to 262 x 170 mm.

Source Acquisition

Purchase ; Smitskamp Oriental Antiquarian ; 2001

References

Storey, Charles. Persian literature, vol. II/3, 492/7

Āghā Buzurg al-Ṭihrānī. Dharīʻah (1330 h. sh.), vol. 18, no. 1272

Kâtip Çelebi. Kashf al-zunūn, vol. V, p. 260 (no. 10952)

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 13).

The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 2a, l. 7) and in several squares, the latter in the form "ʻamal Yaʻqūb ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī" or "ʻamal Yaʻqūb ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāʼūsī". See fol. 59a, 66a, 67b, 70a.

Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with squares, tables and circles in red, black and yellow ink. A few tables are left blank. The text is framed within a gold, black and red border, with an outer frame made of a single blue fillet. Simple illuminated headpieces in red and gold on fol. 1b, 35b and 60b. Laid paper ; glossy.

Incipit: حمدى بر وفق اعداد نا متناهى مقرون تسبيح افراد وازواج مكوّنات

Binding Note

Red leather over paper boards. Blind-stamped center and corner-pieces, with an outer frame consisting of two double-fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic magic—Early works to 1800

Magic squares—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

194

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/628530f4-f773-41ce-9b3f-13868a96b576/manifest

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