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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.
Author
Mawṣilī, Salīm
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موصلي، سليم
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[18--?]
Description
30 leaves : paper, ill. ; 239 x 165 (188 x 97) mm. bound to 240 x 168 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 545H
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Islamic magic
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Divination
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Islamic countries
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Summary note
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.
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.
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)
Other title(s)
Kawākib al-durrīyah fī al-uṣūl al-jafrīyah
كواكب الدرية في الصول الجفرية
الكواكب الدرية بالاصول الجفرية
Title in beginning of text (fol. 2a) and in P. Hitti
al-Kawākib al-durrīyah bi-al-uṣūl al-jafrīyah
OCLC
70910597
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