Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Use—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• قرآن [Browse]
• God (Islam)—Name—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic magic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• ʻAlī Akbarābādī ibn Ḥāmid Qattāl. Bāqir al-anvār. [Browse]
• على اکبرابادى بن حامد قتال. باقر الانوار. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of texts on magic.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text 1.
• Physical description: 17-20 lines per page; written in casual nastaʻliq in black on heavy, cream, glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Extensive damp staining, some mildewing, mild insect damage, and ragged edges.
• Origin: According to Moghadam, likely 18th century.

Binding note

Rebound in cloth.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. leaves 1b-6a: Bāqir al-anvār / ʻAlī Akbarābādī ibn Ḥāmid Qattāl. Treatise on sorcery in 27 bāb, with charts; title from leaf 1b, line 5.
• 2. leaves 6b-9b: [Treatise on the magical efficacy of Sūrat Yāsīn].
• 3. leaves 10a-15b: [Treatise on the magical efficacy of Sūrat al-Muzammil].
• 4. leaves 16a-67b: [Treatise on the magical power of the names of God]. With numerous charts; incomplete at end.

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Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 71

OCLC

852391916

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