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الشامل في البحر الكامل في الدور العامل في اصول التعزيم وقواعد التنجيم
al-Shāmil fī al-baḥr al-kāmil fī al-dawr al-ʻāmil fī uṣūl al-taʻzīm wa-qawāʻid al-tanjīm.
Author
Ṭabasī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, -1089 or 1090
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طبسي، محمد بن احمد
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[between 16--? and 17--?]
Description
107 leaves : paper, ill. ; 185 x 110 (125 x 80) mm. bound to 193 x 120 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 160
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Islamic magic
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Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
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11th century
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Charms
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Islamic Empire
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11th century
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Summary note
Book of spells. Incomplete at beginning and end (breaks off in Bāb 19: Faṣl fī nuskhah qawīyah li-hādhā al-ʻamal... -- starting fol. 97a).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b).
Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin light biscuit paper, glossy, with thick laid lines visible. Contains charts, figures, and diagrams (see in particular the human form on fol. 37b). Collation notes and annotations on the margins. Catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "176" (repeated on fol. 1a in Arabic and western numerals).
Beginning as extant: انبسط الىّ واقترح علىّ تهديب مجموع احررت فى علم التعزيم مما يعتمد ويعوّل عليه ويحطّ الرجال عنده ... [1ب] ... الباب الاول فى ماهيت [2أ] التعزيم اما فسّره ومعناه فليتحقق متحقق انه ماخوذ من العزم وتضميم الراى والانطواء على الامر
End as extant: فصل فى نسخة قوية لهذا العمل يكتب ويجعل فى جوزة وتدفن تحت النار ... الى قوله رهقا ان تفعلوا وتحرقوا قلب فلانة بنت فلانة من حب فلان بن فلانة
Provenance
Impression of a rectangular stamp on fol. 1b.
References
Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 1328
Ullmann, M. Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften (1972), p. 386-387
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 495 (17. Kapitel/1) ; SI
OCLC
180205909
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