[Collection of Arabic mystical and magical texts, poems, prayers and invocations].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[18--?]
Description
110 leaves : paper, ill. ; 124 x 94 (109 x 75) mm. bound to 132 x 101 mm.

Details

Subject(s)
Contains
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Physical description: 10-12 lines per page; written in ruqʻah script in black by different hands on white paper. Catchwords; most of ms. is vocalized.
Binding note
Contemporary brown morocco with flap; blind tooled ornamentation.
Language note
Arabic.
Contents
  • 1. fol. 1a-13b: Hādhā Ḥirz [...] wa-yusammá fī al-aṣl Sirray [sic] al-asrār wa-nūr al-anwār. Attributed to Anas ibn Mālik.
  • 2. fol. 14a-18a: [Amulet].
  • 3. fol. 18b-21b: Hādhihi Istighāthah bi-al-Rasūl. Attributed to Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī.
  • 4. fol. 22a-26b: Fāʼidah ʻan Rasūl Allāh. Explanation of funeral rituals.
  • 5. fol. 27a: [Poem].
  • 6. fol. 27b: [blank]
  • 7. fol. 28a-30a: [Prayers, quotations from the Qurʼan, and amulet drawings].
  • 8. fol. 30b-32b: [blank]
  • 9. fol. 33a-55b: Hādhihi Asmāʼ ahl al-Badr / al-Shaykh Ḥusayn al-Muftī al-Dajānī. Dated 8 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1297 AH (30 March 1880).
  • 10. fol. 56a-64a: Ḥizb al-sattār / Yaḥyá al-Bākūbī.
  • 11. fol. 64b-65b: [blank]
  • 12. fol. 66a-73b: Hādhā Istighfār ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sulṭān.
  • 13. fol. 74: [blank]
  • 14. fol. 75a-78b: Hādhihi Ṣalāh alladhī [sic] kāna yasmaʻuhā Jaʻfar ibn al-Mubārak ʻinda qabr Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
  • 15. fol. 79a-80a: Fāʼidah lil-naḍrah [sic] wa-al-ʻayn.
  • 16. fol. 80b-83b: Hādhā Ḥizb al-naṣr / Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī.
  • 17. fol. 83b-85a: Hādhihi Istighāthat Maʻrūf al-Karkhī.
  • 18. fol. 86a: [blank]
  • 19. fol. 86b-99a: Ḥirz al-ghāsilah.
  • 20. fol. 99b-100a: [blank]
  • 21. fol. 100b: [Talisman with magic square].
  • 22. fol. 101a-103a: Fāʼidat kaffārat al-fawāʼit li-ṣalāh.
  • 23. fol. 103b-110b: [Notes].
Source acquisition
Gift; The Gardner Magic Project in memory of David A. Gardner, Princeton Class of 1969. AM 2005-82.
Other title(s)
  • Sirr al-asrār wa-nūr al-anwār.
  • سر الاسرار ونور الانوار.
  • Istighāthah bi-al-Rasūl.
  • استغاثة بالرسول.
  • Ḥirz al-ghāsilah.
  • حرز الغاسلة.
  • Qurʼan. Selections
  • قرآن.
OCLC
60356315
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