Details

Subject(s)

• Alchemy—Islamic countries [Browse]
• Divination—Islamic countries [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of two different texts bearing the same title and author, along with a collection of alchemical recipes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text on fol. 4b, 110a.
• On spine: Label reading "Ḥadīs̲-i khaṭṭī" in Arabic script.
• On fore edge: "Ḥadīs̲" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: Texts 1-2 are 15 lines per page in neat naskh; text 3 is 19-20 lines per page in nastaʻliq. Entire ms. on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; rubrication in text 1. Light staining and foxing; in excellent condition.
• Origin: Text 1 completed in Nahāvand, 1256 H [1840 or 41] by Muḥammad Ṭāhir (fol. 78a); text 2 by the same hand, likely completed around the same time. Text 3 completed 19 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1260 H [30 December 1844] (fol. 183b); likely from Iran.
• Incipit (text 1): ابتدا مىکنم بنام پادشاه قدىم که اوست قدوس عزىز علىم حکىم
• Incipit (text 3): حمد الخالق خلق الشمس والقمر شكر الجاعل جعل الكون من حجر

Binding note

Full orange-brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; yellow paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 3b-78a: Sirāj al-ẓulmah wa-al-raḥmah. Text on divination.
• 2. fol. 78b-107a: [Alchemical recipes].
• 3. fol. 109b-183b: Sirāj al-ẓulmah wa-al-raḥmah. Text on alchemy.

References

• Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 441
• Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah, XII, 158

OCLC

795702953

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