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Subject(s)

• Divination—Iran [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Illustrated treatise on ʻamal al-māsah, a type of divination in which threads woven from camel hairs are buried in sand; written at the request of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh [r. 1797-1834] and Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Khān Qājār, governor of Kirmān and Balūchistān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text on fol. 7b.
• Ms erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Records follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 12 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords; illustrations in red. Some staining and smudging; otherwise in excellent condition.
• Origin: 4 Shawwāl 1289 H [5 December 1872], Dār al-Salṭanah Tabrīz, by ʻAlī Qulī Qājār Kirmānī (fol. 77a).
• Incipit: حمد بيحد و كران و ثناي بيعد و پايان واجب الوجودى را سزاست كه جميع اسرار كنت كنزاً مخفيا در آئينه قدرتش پيداست

Binding note

Full orange-brown leather with blind-stamped and tooled fillets.

Language note

Persian.

References

• Fihrist-i Kitābkhānah-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, IV, 962-3
• Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah, II, 53
• Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 464

Other title(s)

اسرار الغيب

Title given by Storey and Āghā Buzurg

• Asrār al-ghayb

OCLC

801411863

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