Details

Subject(s)

• Divination [Browse]
• Geomancy [Browse]

Summary note

The text is a treatise on divination and magical spells.

Notes

• Title from colophon.
• Text begins on p. 4.
• Page 3 blank.
• Ms. in crude nastaliq on glazed paper. Headings and keywords in red. Text area framed in ruled double red lines. Headings set off from text by single and double ruled lines in red. Catchwords; few marginal notations. Some leaves show repairs, primarily in margins.
• Binding is brown leather. Spine plain; covers have stamped double fillet border with second set of fillets surrounding crudely inlaid gilt floral mandorla with opposing tulips in the same fashion. A stamped vertical line bisects the corners; the space between the two sets of fillets and the perimeters of the inlays are decorated with painted teardrops. A third tulip is set between the two pairs of fillets at the center of the outer edge of the cover. Inlaid scalloped corner decorations are placed at the interior angles of the outer fillets. Doublures and endpapers are heavy burgundy paper. The first leaf has been torn; the botton half in lost.
• Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... برآنكه علم رمل ترديك اهل فضل كرام باشد دردنيا ازان نيكوتركه ...
• Explicit:... وفروخت ايشان مصرت رسته (؟) واكر ازدست باشند بعد از ٨(؟) روز بدست آيد والله اعلم ...
• Colophon:... تمام شد نسخه مثلثات در علم رمل از از امام محمد الزناتى سنه ١٨٩ [١] ماه ذى الحجه تاريح بيست وهفتم روز پنجشنبه تمام شد.

Provenance

• ESL 1645 541. Gift of Robert Garret, '97.
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

OCLC

122987997

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