Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 591

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DS ID:

DS27052

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 591

Title:

Treatise on charms and talismans

Magical texts

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

1483].

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 26 leaves : paper, ill. ; 245 x 177 (170 x 125) mm. bound to 270 x 180 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
21 long lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red mainly for diagrams and charts. Marginal notes in a later hand; catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick oriental glazed paper; no chain line visible; thick vertical laid line visible. The pages have been trimmed so that parts of the marginalia and catchwords are cut off. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals...
Contains magic script (fol. 26b) and a long note on the campaigns of Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn (fol. 26b).
Copied by Ḥājjī ibn Jamāl al-Kātib al-Kāshī on 17 Rajab 888 (colophon, fol. 26b).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Iran

Fifteenth century

Early works

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic magic

Talismans

Islam

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9946344733506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f088de48-5f28-486a-a30d-d940c250543c/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University