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Language Arabic Subject Divination--Early works to 1800 Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 7890

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Add MS 7890
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following six texts in Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Arabic : (I) ff 1v-36r : A model letter collection for the use of military officers. It contains models of letters by Zağarcıbaşılar, Çorbacıbaşılar, Turnacıbaşıları, and others to the Kâya Bey, or the Ağa of Janissa...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
6 texts, 139 ff

2. Add MS 9702

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Add MS 9702
Title:
[Ottoman Mecmua of Divination]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following two texts : (I) ff 1v-45v : Haza er-risale fi beyan er-remel an telif-i Daniyal nebi aleyhi as-salah ve's-salam, a book of divination (Kitab-i Remel) by dots ascribed to the Prophet Daniel. The figures used in this mode of divination consist of sixteen combin...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
2 texts, 126 ff

3. Delhi Persian 98B*

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Delhi Persian 98B*
Title:
Works on raml divination, 2 items (a-b)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1750-1799
Extent:
66 ff.

4. Delhi Persian 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 116
Title:
Miscellaneous works on magic, 10 items (a-j)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1780-1820
Extent:
38 ff.

5. Delhi Persian 768

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 768
Title:
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, Islam, and magic, 48 items (a-av)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1756-1758
Extent:
249 ff.

6. Delhi Persian 853

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 853
Title:
Miscellaneous works on divination and Persian grammar, 12 items (a-l)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1844
Extent:
408 ff. (+4)

7. Delhi Persian 1398

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 1398
Title:
Miscellaneous works on poetry and divination, 3 items (a-c)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1600-1850
Extent:
14 ff. (+3)

8. Or 7284

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Or 7284
Title:
[Kitab-i Remel] - [كتاب رمل]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two tracts on remel or divination by means of dots. The first of these (ff 3v-71r) is anonymous with no title and begins abruptly with a chapter heading. There are many marginal diagrams of various figures and tables on ff 14v, 29v-31r, 58v-62v, and 66v-70v. The text runs on...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
Codex, 97 ff

9. Or 8878

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Or 8878
Title:
al-Bahjah al-unsīyah fī al-firāsah al-insānīyah البهجة الأُنسية في الفراسة الإنسانية Sibṭ al-Marṣafī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المرصفي، محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A treatise on physiognomy by the Egyptian jurist and Sufi Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghamrī Sibṭ al-Marṣafī (زين العابدين محمد بن محمد الغمري سبط المرصفي, d 1599). The text comprises an introduction (مقدمة, ff. 1v-6v) on bodily humours, two inventory sections (الكشف الأول, ff. 6v-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
Codex; ff i+28+i

10. Or 11065

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Or 11065
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following tracts largely on the topic of divination : (I) ff 1v-6v : Şerh-i ruzname, followed by an Arabic poem about the Twelve Imams (ff 6r-v) ; (II) ff 6v-7r : Eyam-i nuhus, a short poem on the unlucky days ; (III) ff 7r-11r : A poem on the lucky and unlucky ass...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
7 texts, 92 ff