Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 540H

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DS ID:

DS29453

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 540H

Title:

Kitāb ʻIqd al-farāʾid fīmā lil-muthallath min al-fawāʾid / / كتاب عقد الفرائد فيما للمثلث من الفوائد /

Author:

Damanhūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim / دمنهوري، احمد بن عبد المنعم

Ahmad Damanhuri WIKIDATA

Date:

1734?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 40 leaves : paper, ill. ; 210 x 137 (150 x 90) mm. bound to 225 x 150 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a, later replacement).
21 long lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red for headings and keywords (sometimes overlined in red). Glazed European(?) paper. Two first folios are later replacements. The last fol. is mended with the text recopied on the repair (including the left part of the colophon). Inscription "132" in Western numerals corresponding to Brill's catalog written on the...
Contains magical squares and talismans.
Copied on 3 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1147? ("[al-thālith] min al-sādis min a[l-sābiʻ min] al-khāmis min a[l-thānī] ʻashr min al-hijrah"; colophon, fol. 40b; partly written by a later hand).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Eighteenth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic magic

Early works

Triangle

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947309273506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e07f7df6-594c-421e-9820-bf2dae02bdf1/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University