Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 52B

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DS ID:

DS29452

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 52B

Title:

Treatise on ancient, alchemical and magical alphabets

Date:

17--?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, charts

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 46 leaves : paper, charts ; 198 x 145 (146 x 102) mm. bound to 250 x 149 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Number of lines per page varies; the few pages with continuous text have 18 to 19 long lines. Written in black and red ink. European paper with watermarks. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf (up to fol. 26b). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Contains tables with the letters of the different alphabets and their Arabic equivalent, a diagram explaining the secret meaning of the cross (fol. 37b) and another representing the tree of scriptures (fol. 40b).
This is not the Shawq al-Mustahām fī maʻrifah rumūz al-aqlām by Ibn Waḥshīyah.
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey Bārūdī (Beirut).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Eighteenth century

Alphabets

History

Early works

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic magic

Alchemy

Islamic Empire

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9946805443506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a80932f7-4c13-4a1d-873c-7afd8d5c02db/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University