Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Use—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Divination—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on divination using the Qurʼān; illustrated with charts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger, per Āghā Buzurg.
• Caption title and title in text erroneously read "Zubdat al-arvāḥ."
• On spine: Label reading "Jafr va raml" and "642" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal notes. Numerous charts, some of which are only partly filled in. Some damp staining and a few paper repairs. In good condition.
• Origin: Jumādá I 1056 H [March-April 1622] (fol. 67b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين .. بعد از حمد و ثناي حضرت كبريا و درو[د] و ثناي سرور اوليا و انبيا و هادي اصفيا

Binding note

Full brown leather with flap, damp stained. Marbled paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XII, 20

OCLC

816391624

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