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Subject(s)

• Islam—Prayers and devotions [Browse]
• Islamic magic [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]
• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]

Summary note

Supplications, a sūrah from the Qurʾān, and magical formulae.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in elegant naskh in black on beige glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords. Arabic vocalized; interlinear Persian translation in red. Some staining and smudging; last leaf detached.
• Decoration: Illuminated ʻunwān in gold and color on fol. 1b, in excellent condition. Text framed in double gold lines with outer marginal blue and gold border. Gold discs separating āyahs in text 2.

Language note

Arabic and Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a: [Magical formulae].
• 2. fol. 1b-5a: [Sūrat Yāsīn].
• 3. fol. 5a-29b: [Supplications].
• 4. fol. 29b-36a: [Supplication with interlinear Persian translation].
• 5. fol. 36b-99a: [Supplications]. With Persian explanations as to their source and use.
• 6. fol. 99b-102a: [Magic squares and formulae].

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References

Mach and Ormsby, Handlist, no. 1382

Other title(s)

• Qurʼan. Sūrat Yāsīn
• قرآن. سورة يس.

Title in Mach and Ormsby, Handlist

• Ṣalawāt

OCLC

812525110

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