Details

Subject(s)

• Divination—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Work on divination in forty tables.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, l. 24-25).
• The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text as: "al-Sayyid Sharaf al-Dīn ibn Ṣalāḥ ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Imām Sharaf al-Dīn ibn Ṣalāḥ al-Kawkabānī baladan al-Zaydī madhhaban" (fol. 1b, l. 12-14).
• The introduction (fol. 1b-2b) is written in 27 lines per page; table on fol. 3a; tables 5 x 4 on fol. 3b-5a; tables 1 x 13 on fol. 5b-25a. Fol. 25b-26b have been framed but left blank. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Frames in red ink. European glazed paper with watermark. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 26 ; 1-2¹⁰ 3⁶ ; catchword on some leaves.
• For a description of the content, see W. Ahlwardt. Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, no. 4237.
• Incipit: بسم ... وصلى الله ... وسلم الحمد لله الذى اطلع بدور الارادات فى فلك السعادات وظهر ... القران ترتيلا وبعد فيقول الفقير ... هذا كتاب محكم النظم قريب الفهم محروس القواعد
• Explicit: يصل رسول ليلة الاثنين او يوم الخميس ولكنه ليس بمصلح فانه عدو حسود

Binding note

Unbound.

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., 943
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 567 (10/2)

OCLC

68940527

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