Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic magic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Talismans—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Magic tricks—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A work on magic and prestidigitation in thirty chapters, detailed at the beginning of text (fol 2a-3a).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• The title also appears in the same form at the beginning of the text (fol. 1b), and on a modern label on the spine written in Roman characters, reading "ʻUyûn el-ḥaqâʼiq wa Îḍâḥ eṭ-Ṭarâʼiq [next line] Aḥmed el-ʻIrâqî".
• The name of the author appears on the title page as Ibn al-Qāsim, and at the beginning of the text as Abū al-Qāsim al-ʻIrāqī (fol. 1b).
• 13 lines per page. Written in a medium small naskh in black and red ink. European glazed paper with watermark. Contains magic script, charts and drawings of talismans. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Copied on 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1274 (colophon, fol. 150a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 150 + i ; 1-15¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. The quires are numbered in reversed order (starting from the end) in Western numerals.
• Title page: هذا كتاب عيون الحقائق وايضاح الطرايق تأليف الشيخ العالم العلامة ابن قاسم احمد العراقي وهو مشتمل علي ملاعيب وحكم وفوائِد
• Incipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ولاعدوان الاعلي الظالمين وصلي الله ... وسلم قال الشيخ ... ابو القاسم العراقي ... انا لما رأينا اكثر الخلايق قد ظهر منهم الحيل في كثير من الطريق
• Explicit: ومن عدم المداراة عدم التوفيق والرشد والهداية والرحمة الواسعة والله تعالي اعلم انه مجيب وهاب ومسبب الاسباب وقد تم عيون الحقايق وايضاح الطرايق علي التمام والكمال والحمد لله علي كل حال وصلي الله علي سيدنا وحبيبنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم والحمد لله رب العالمين والله سبحانه وتعالي المرجو في حسن الخاتمة تم

Binding note

Modern European binding.

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., 936
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 497 (no. 3/3)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 909 (no. 3/3)
• Holmyard, E.J. Abu' l-Qāsim al-ʻIrāqī, in Isis, 8.3 (Jul., 1926), p. 416

Other title(s)

• ʻUyūn al-ḥaqāʼiq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarāʼiq
• عيون الحقائق وايضاح الطرائق

OCLC

70902147

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