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Subject(s)

• Ṭabasī, Ḥasan active 14th century—Miftāḥ al-kunūz [Browse]
• Geomancy—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Surkhāb. Surkhāb al-raml. Selections. [Browse]
• سرخاب. سرخاب الرمل. [Browse]

Contains

• Balyānī, ʻAbd Allāh, active 16th century. Jahān al-raml. Jihat 4. [Browse]
• بلىانى، عبد الله، active 16th century. جهان الرمل. جهت 4. [Browse]
• Balyānī, ʻAbd Allāh, active 16th century. Jihāt al-raml. Jihat 4. [Browse]
• بلىانى، عبد الله، active 16th century. جهات الرمل. جهت 4. [Browse]
• Iqlīdī, Abū Bakr. Taqvīm al-raml. Ufuq 4. [Browse]
• اقلىدى، ابو بکر. تقوىم الرمل. افق 4. [Browse]
• Rammāl Iṣfahānī, Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn Qāsim. Zayn al-raml. [Browse]
• رمال اصفهانى، زىن العابدىن بن قاسم. زىن الرمل. [Browse]
• Rāzī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Hādī ibn Muḥammad Saʻīd. Kashf al-iʻjāz. [Browse]
• رازى شىرازى، محمد هادى بن محمد سعىد. کشف الاعجاز. [Browse]
• Ṭabasī, Ḥasan, active 14th century. Miftāḥ al-kunūz fī al-rumūz. [Browse]
• طبسى، حسن، active 14th century. مفتاح الکنوز فى الرموز. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of texts and extracts on geomancy, amply illustrated with charts and diagrams.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from spine label.
• Physical description: 18-21 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Charts and diagrams in red and black. Insert between fol. 116-117. Fol. 10a, 134b blank; fol. 2-7, 144 almost completely detached. First few leaves heavily stained, but still legible. Remainder of ms. has light staining and smudging. In good condition.
• Incipit (text 7): حمد و سپاس و ستايش بيقياس موجودى را که ارهام [!] و افهام جمله کاينات از گنه ذات او قاصر است
• Incipit (text 9): الحمد لله الذي دل على وحدانية اجتماع الموجودات واستشهد على فردانية زوجية الممكنات
• Incipit (text 11): در توضىح مفاتىح الکنوز الطبسى و کشف اسرار ان مرتب است بر هفت مطلع مطلع اول در ضمىر نظر کند در خانه اول

Binding note

Limp brown leather with blind-stamped fillets and yellow paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a: [Notes].
• 2. fol. 1b-6b: Ufuq-i siyum dar intikhāb az nuskhah-i Mawlānā Shams al-Dīn Bākūtī kih az Kitāb-i Surkhāb bīrūn nivishtah and. Extracts from the Surkhāb al-raml.
• 3. vol. 6b-9b: [Charts].
• 4. fol. 10b-37a: Sharḥ-i jamīʻ-i davāyir. Explanation of geomancy charts and diagrams culled from a number of texts.
• 5. fol. 37b-47a: Jihat-i chahārum az Jahān al-raml / min taṣnīf-i ʻAbd Allāh al-mashhūr bi-Shāh Mullā Munajjim al-Ḥusaynī. Selection from ʻAbd Allāh al-Balyānī's Jahān al-raml, also known as Jihāt al-raml.
• 6. fol. 47a-54a: Ufuq-i chahārum dar intikhāb az kitāb-i Ḥakīm Iqlīdī. Likely an extract from Abū Bakr Iqlīdī's Taqvīm al-raml.
• 7. fol. 54a-80b: Zayn al-raml / Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn Qāsim Rammāl Iṣfahānī.
• 8. fol. 80b-93b: [Extracts and charts].
• 9. fol. 94a-106b: Kashf al-iʻjāz / Ibn Muḥammad Saʻīd al-Rāzī Muḥammad Hādī al-mashhūr bi-Shīrāzī mutakhalliṣ bi-Rāhib.
• 10. fol. 106b-134a: Intikhāb-i Miftāḥ al-kunūz. Extract from the work of Ḥasan al-Ṭabasī.
• 11. fol. 135a-139a: Dar tawz̤īḥ-i Mafātīḥ al-kunūz al-Ṭabasī. Commentary on al-Ṭabasī's Miftāḥ al-kunūz.
• 12. fol. 139b-140a: Dar bayān-i ʻidad-i ashkāl-i raml-i dukhānhā.
• 13. fol. 140b-144a: Dar bayān-i ṭāliʻ-i parvan āvardah az raml.
• 14. fol. 144b: [Notes].

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References

• Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 482, 488 (no. 48, 55)
• Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), V, 295; XXI, 344-5
• Fihrist-i nuskhahʹhā-yi khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhānah-ʼi ʻUmūmī-i Ḥaz̤rat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʻUẓmá Najafī Marʻashī (1975-), XX, 176

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ-i jamīʻ-i davāyir.
• شرح جمىع دواىر.
• Dar tawz̤īḥ-i Mafātīḥ al-kunūz al-Ṭabasī.
• در توضىح مفاتىح الکنوز الطبسى.
• Dar bayān-i ʻidad-i ashkāl-i raml-i dukhānhā.
• در بىان عدد اشکال رمل دخانها.
• Dar bayān-i ṭāliʻ-i parvan āvardah az raml.
• در بىان طالع پرون آورده از رمل.

OCLC

778373792

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