Arabic version of the first book of the Kyranis (Κυρανίς, جرنيس, written here حرنيس), a late-antique Greek magical text known in English as the Kyranides or Cyranides. Book One is arranged alphabetically according to the twenty-four letters of the Greek alphabet, with a plant, bird, stone and fi...
Unattributed text on the magical and medical properties of stones. The text is defective at beginning, starting abruptly, but no folio seems to be missing since the catchwords at the foot of f. 115v (وأما المحك) are apparently meant to match the initial words on f. 116r (وماء المحك). Begins (f...
Kitāb ʻUṭārid ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāsib fī manāfiʻ al-aḥjār wa-al-ḥiraz wa-ṭillismātihā wa-khawātim al-kawākib al-sabʻah كتاب عطارد بن محمد الحاسب في منافع الأحجار والحرز وطلسماتها وخواتم الكواكب السبعة Ḥāsib, ʻUṭārid ibn Muḥammad حاسب، عطارد بن محمد
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Lapidary including instructions for engraving amulets, talismans and seals of the seven planets byʿUṭārid ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāsib [here written al-Muḥāsib] al-Munajjim al-Bābilī (عطارد بن محمد الحاسب [المحاسب] المنجم البابلي, fl 9th century). Blank spaces left for images meant to be engraved on a...
al-Kitāb al-majmūʻ fī khawāṣṣ al-aḥjār الكتاب المجموع في خواص الأحجار Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
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Collection of five texts on the occult properties (خواصّ) of stones and other natural substances attributed to Hermes (هرمس), Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) and other sages. Contents: (1) Book on the Knowledge of Stones, their Occult Properties and Inscriptions (كتاب معرفة الحجارة وخاصيتها ...
al-Taʻlīq al-zāʼid ʻalā kitāb al-aḥjār al-ṣaghīr التعليق الزائد على كتاب الأحجار الصغير
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Unattributed collection of magico-medical prescriptions said to be an 'supplementary appendix to The Small (?) Book of Stones' (التعليق الزائد على كتاب الأحجار الصغير[؟], see Colophon, f. 199r, line 11, transcribed below). Begins (f. 197v, lines 2-3): تعليق إذا كثر بكاء الصبي فخذ طرف أذن قط...
Bāb nuqila min kitāb ākhar li-Suqraqṭis باب نقل من كتاب آخر لسقرقطس Suqraqṭis سقرقطس
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Instructions for the making of protective amulets and talismans attributed to the sage Suqraqṭis (سقرقطس, perhaps meant to be Socrates [سقراطس] or Hippocrates [بقراطس]). Begins (ff. 199r, line 13-199v, line 2): ينقش هذه الأسماء على فص ياقوت أو نجادي (؟) أو بلور وهي الأسماء التي دعا بها سلي...