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Subject(s)

• Arithmetic—Early works to 1900 [Browse]
• Divination—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• God (Islam)—Name—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• God (Islam)—Name—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Duʻāʼ al-sayfī [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1502 [Browse]

Contains

• Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225. Lumʻah al-nūrānīyah fī al-awrād al-rabbānīyah. Persian. [Browse]
• بوني، احمد بن علي، -1225. لمعة النورانية في الاوراد الربانية. الفارسية. [Browse]
• Darvīsh Burhān, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, active 16th century. Durr Baḥr al-manāqib fī tafṣīl ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. [Browse]
• درويش برهان، على بن ابراهيم، active 16th century. در بحر المناقب فى تفصيل على بن ابى طالب. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of texts mainly on supplications and arithmetic.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; Arabic text and quotations written in scribal hand and vocalized ; Lacuna after fol. 47. Some staining; edges ragged.
• Incipit: [مختصر در علم] اين مختصريست در علم حساب مشتمل بر شش باب برين تفصيل باب اول در جمع باب دوم در تنصيف باب سوم در تضعيف باب چهارم در تفريق باب پنجم در ضرب باب ششم در قسمت -- [ترجمه کتاب لمعه] الحمد لله على حسن توفيقه ... اين مختصر مشتملست بر ترجمه کتاب لمعه نورانى از مصنفات شيخ ... سيف الدين ابو العباس البونى -- [شرايط خواندن] بدان ايدک الله که از شرايط خواندن دعاء سيفى بعضى آن است که اول غسل بايد -- [چهار اشارات] و بدانک در آن چهار اشارات خفيه است از ائمه معصومين ... در هر اشارتى دعايى واردست -- [دعاء الاسماء] اللهم اني اسئلك باسمائك الحسنى يا الله يا رحمن يا رحيم يا حليم يا عليم -- [Treatise explaining the names] سپاس و ستايش حضرت آفريدگار عالم را جل جلاله ... نقلست از شيخ مرشد ختم اوليا شيخ شهاب الدىن سهروردى ... که جمل اسم بزرگست از اسماى حضرت پروردگار -- [Treatise on arithematic] الحمد لله الذي نعمته لا تحصى وكرمه لا يغنى

Binding note

Loose in folder of limp blue leather.

Language note

Persian and Arabic;

Script

Nastaʻliq.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-2b: [Last four pages of a treatise containing chapters on days of misfortune and Arabic phonetics].
• 2. fol. 2b-5a: Mukhtaṣar dar ʻilm-i ḥisāb. Treatise on arithmetic in six bāb.
• 3. fol. 5b-42a: Tarjamah-i Kitāb-i Lumʻah-i nūrānī / az muṣannafāt-i Shaykh ... Sayf al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Būnī. Translation into Persian of the author's treatise on special prayers (awrād) for different days of the week; with charts on fol. 7b-8b.
• 4. fol. 42b-45a: Sharāyiṭ-i khvāndan-i Duʻāʼ-i sayfī. Preconditions for reciting the Duʻāʼ al-sayfī, a supplication attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
• 5. fol. 45a-47b: Chahār ishārāt-i khafīyah. Four supplications; incomplete at end.
• 6. fol. 48a: [Page from an unidentified Persian treatise].
• 7. fol. 48b-62a: [Duʻāʼ al-asmāʼ al-ḥusná]. Supplication in which the names of God are grouped in tens in terms of function and categorized accordingly in Persian; with interlinear Persian translation.
• 8. fol. 62a-72b: [Treatise explaining the names of God].
• 9. fol. 73a: [Extract].
• 10. fol. 73b-82a: [Treatise on arithmetic].
• 11. fol. 82b-83a: Bāb al-ḥubb. Extract on divination.
• 12. fol. 83b: [Durr Baḥr al-manāqib fī tafṣīl ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib] / ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-mulaqqab bi-Darvīsh Burhān. First page of a work on the merits of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

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Provenance

On fol. 83a, note dated Muḥarram 1126 H [January-February 1714].

Other title(s)

• Treatise on days of misfortune and Arabic phonetics.
• Bāb al-ḥubb.
• باب الحب.
• Mukhtaṣar dar ʻilm-i ḥisāb.
• مختصر در علم حساب.
• Sharāyiṭ-i khvāndan-i Duʻāʼ-i sayfī.
• شرايط خواندن دعاء سيفى.
• Chahār ishārāt-i khafīyah.
• چهار اشارات خفية.
• Duʻāʼ al-asmāʼ al-ḥusná.
• دعاء الاسماء الحسنى.
• Treatise explaining the names of God.
• Treatise on arithmetic.

OCLC

810084334

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