Details

Subject(s)

• Astrology, Turkish [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions [Browse]
• Islamic magic [Browse]
• Magic squares [Browse]
• Traditional medicine—Turkey [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of prayers, quotations, magic, and notes on popular medicine, largely in Ottoman Turkish, likely written by several owners as notes and memory aids.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: Written in naskh and nastaʻliq scripts in black and red inks by many hands; on heavy European unglazed, laid paper. Paginated 1-93 in Arabic script in blue ink; fol. 47a-66b written upside-down and paginated 1-39 in Arabic script in reverse.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a: [Notes].
• 2. fol. 1b: [Quotations from the Qurʾān].
• 3. fol. 2a: [Medical notes].
• 4. fol. 2a-4a: [Magic squares].
• 5. fol. 4b-5a: [Notes].
• 6. fol. 5b-41b: [Quotations from the Qurʾān with explanation or instructions for magical use, as well as magical diagrams, astrological charts, and supplications].
• 7. fol. 42a-46b: [Notes].
• 8. fol. 47a-65b: [Medical notes interspersed with supplications].
• 9. fol. 66a: [Owner's note].
• 10. fol. 66b: [Extract concerning the recitation of certain sūrahs].

Show 7 more Contents items

Provenance

Owner's note on fol. 66a dated 19 Nīsān 1304 (1 May 1888).

Source acquisition

Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2011/02/04 (2011-71).

Other title(s)

• Qurʼan. Selections
• قرآن Selections.

OCLC

703151362

Statement on language in description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...