كتاب شموس الانوار وكنوز الاسرار / تأليف ابن الحاج احمد الكبير التلساني قدس سره
title: Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār / taʼlīf Ibn al-Ḥājj Aḥmad al-Kabīr al-Tilimsānī qaddasa sirrah.
language: ar
creator: Ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1336
creator: ابن الحاج، محمد بن محمد
call number: Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3182Y
extent: 69 leaves: paper ; 225 x 165 (180 x 125) mm. bound to 225 x 170 mm.
format: Manuscript
format: Book
description: Ms. codex.
description: Title from rubric on fol. 1b. The same title appears in the preamble of the text, at the end of Juzʼ 1 and Juzʻ 2 (fol. 32a and 67a), and the beginning of Juzʼ 2 (fol. 33a).
description: Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of magenta. Contains charts and figures. European paper. The text is not vocalized.
description: Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thālith 45". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "521/2 ḥ".
description: Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اودع رقوم الحروف بدايع اسراره وركب منها معاني اسمائه وفجر فيها ينابيع الاعداد ... اما بعد فقد سالني بعض المحبين ابان الله لي ولهم معالم التحقيق وسلك بنا وبهم مناهج اهل التحقيق ان اضع لهم كتابا فى سر علم الحروف وروحانية الاسماء وما كتموه ارباب هذا الشان من اسرار صنعة الحكماء ومواهب العلماء ... الباب الاول في سر الحروف حرف الالف صورته هذا
description: Explicit: يقول لك الساعة الفلانية والطالع الفلاني يجتمع معه في اليوم الفلاني و...؟ مما يعتمد عليه وبالله تعالى التوفيق لا رب غيره ولا معبود بالحق سواه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
publisher: [ 18--?]
subject: Divination—Religious aspects—Islam—14th century
subject: Arabic alphabet—Symbolic aspects—Early works to 1800
subject: Talismans—Islamic empire—14th century
subject: Islamic magic—14th century
subject: Occultism—Islamic Empire—14th century
subject: Animals—Symbolic aspects—Islam
subject: Animals—Religious aspects—Islam
subject: Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
genre: manuscripts (documents)
spatial: New Jersey
uniform title: Shumūs al-anwār
uniform title: شموس الانوار
binding note: Quarter bound with flap, in golden brown leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns.
provenance: Inscription in red ink on fol. 1a, reading: "al-Faqīr Rajab FRDī". Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
source acquisition: Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
references: Mach, R. Yahuda, 5209
references: Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 83 ; SII, 95
references: Ullmann, M. Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (1972), 392
author: Ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1336
created: 1800-01-01T00:00:00Z/1899-12-31T23:59:59Z
date: 1800-1899
abstract: Treatise of uncertain authorship in thirty chapters (bāb), on ʻilm al-ḥurūf and other occult sciences, with charts of talismans. See M. Ullmann, Die Geheim-..., p. 392, n. 2. In this copy, the text is divided in two parts. The text is followed on fol. 67b-68b by several fāʼidah by the same hand, and by a short text on the 22 mansūkhāt as transmitted from the Prophet Muḥammad, with zoological metaphors, on fol. 69a-b (thicker paper).
location: Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3182Y