Details

Subject(s)

• Shīʻah—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Divination—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic magic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Earthquakes—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Rainbows—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Contains

• S̲āqib al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad, 18th cent. Sāʻatʹnāmah. [Browse]
• ثاقب الحسىنى، محمد، 18th cent. ساعت‌نامه. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of texts on divination and propitious actions and days.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 14-16 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq (fol. 1-35, 108-133) and naskh (fol. 36-107) in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Crude ʻunwān in gold, blue, and red on fol. 1b. Text framed in blue, gold, and green. Numerous charts enhanced with red and/or purple. Texts in naskh have catchwords and Arabic prayers are vocalized. Rubricated throughout. Fol. 1a, 10a, 67b, 107b, 124b, 131b, 134a-135b blank. Paginated in Arabic script in blue but with numerous errors. Extensive damp staining causing some of the rubrication in nastaʻliq texts to bleed and fade.
• Origin: Compiled and copied by Abū Turāb Rājah ʻAlī Shīrkhān (fol. 1a).
• Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله رب العالمىن ... اما بعد چنىن گوىد احقر عباد الله محمد باقر بن محمد تقى عفى الله عن جراىمهما که اين رساله ايست در بىان انچه از احادىث معتبر اهل بىت رسالت معلوم مىشود
• Incipit (text 8): الحمد لله ... اما بعد بدانکه اين رساله ايست در معرفت ساعات و اوقات که بنا بر التماس عقىدت انتما و صداقت سىما محبان و مخلصان

Binding note

Full light brown leather with blind-tooled central rectangle whose vertices are connected by its diagonals, set within a larger rectangle. Brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b: [Notice by the compiler and scribe, Abū Turāb Rājah ʻAlī Shīrkhān].
• 2. fol. 2a-9b: [Ikhtiyārāt al-ayyām] / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī. Treatise on propitious moments or days on which to perform certain actions, in three faṣl and a khātimah; this appears to be the smaller of the Ikhtiyārāt by the author.
• 3. fol. 10b-11b: Jadwal aḥkām al-zalāzil. Table of events presaging earthquakes.
• 4. fol. 12a-19b: [Jadwals and poetry concerning certain words and actions and their effects].
• 5. fol. 20a-20b: Qaws quzaḥ. Divinatory aspects of rainbows.
• 6. fol. 21a-25a: [Divinatory tables and texts].
• 7. fol. 25a-25b: Aḥkām-i zalzalah dar ayyām-i haftah.
• 8. fol. 26a-35b: Sāʻatʹnāmah / Rukh al-Millah wa-al-Dīn Muḥammad al-mutakhalliṣ bi-al-S̲āqib al-Ḥusaynī. Treatise on ikhtiyārāt, written on 4 Jumādá I 1126 H. [18 May 1714]. In eight faṣl; includes charts. Last few pages may be extracts from other texts.
• 9. fol. 36a-67a: [Propitious actions by month]. Chart followed by propitious actions to be performed during Ramaḍān, Rajab, Shaʻbān, Muḥarram, and Ṣafar.
• 10. fol. 68a-107a: [Prayers for various occasions]. With magic texts, signs, and squares (fol. 76b-77a, 79a, 82b, 87a, 106a-106b).
• 11. fol. 108a-124a: [Charts concerning important dates in the lives of the Imams and Prophets].
• 12. fol. 125a-131a: Aḥkām-i sāl az naql-i jadval-i Kitāb-i Tuḥfat al-ʻavāmm. Charts of propitious actions for each day of each month. This and the following text are possibly selections translated into Persian from al-Ḥājj Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Akhbārī's Tuḥfat al-ʻavāmm, a compendium of Shiite prayers and pilgrimages in Urdu (Āghā Buzurg, Dharīʻah, III, 457, no. 1668).
• 13. fol. 132a-133b: Az Kitāb-i Tuḥfat al-ʻavāmm. Charts concerning the sighting of the new moon, sunrise and sunset, and other topics.

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Source acquisition

Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2011/09/07 (2012-16).

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), I, 367 (no. 1917)

Other title(s)

• Jadwal aḥkām al-zalāzil.
• جدول احکام الزلازل.
• Qaws quzaḥ.
• قوس قزح.
• Aḥkām-i zalzalah dar ayyām-i haftah.
• احکام زلزله در ايام هفته.
• Tuḥfat al-ʻavāmm.
• تحفت العوام.

OCLC

752141512

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