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1. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 1v-21r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 1v-21r
Title:
Kitāb al-Isṭimākhīs كتاب الإسطماخيس Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
Text on the making and use of talismans. The text is said to have been taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) for his pupil Alexander the Great (الإسكندر, d. 323 BC) while he was planning his expedition to the east, during the fourth year of his reign (see f. ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 1v-21r

2. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 21v-32r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 21v-32r
Title:
Kitāb istijlāb rūḥānīyat al-bahāʼim kullihā كتاب استجلاب روحانية البهائم كلها Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on attracting the spiritual beings (روحانيات) of animals taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC). The introduction to the text gives it the alternative title al-Madhāṭīs (المذاطيس, see f. 21v, line 3, transcribed below), while the colophon suggests tha...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 21v-32r

3. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 32v-52v

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 32v-52v
Title:
Extract from Kitāb al-Iṣṭimāṭīs من كتاب الإصطماطيس Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
Text on the making and use of talismans said to have been taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) for his pupil Alexander the Great (الإسكندر, d. 323 BC). 　 Begins (f. 32v, lines 2-8): من كتاب الإصطماطيس الذي وضعه هرمس في علل الروحانيات والمقسوم من الأقاليم...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 32v-52v

4. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 53r-85r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 53r-85r
Title:
Kitāb al-Hādhīṭūs كتاب الهاذيطوس
Scope & Content:
Text in six chapters on the preparation and use of magical substances from the cycle of pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica. Contents: (1) Chapter of preserves (باب المربّيات, ff. 69r-72r); (2) Chapter of oils (باب الأدهان, ff. 72r-73v); (3) Chapter on herbs (باب في الحشائش, ff. 73v-77v); (4) Cha...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 53r-85r

5. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 85v-92v

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 85v-92v
Title:
Faṣl min kitāb al-Ashnūṭās فصل من كتاب الأشنوطاس Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
Text on the making and use of talismans said to have been taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC). A marginal note (حاشية) by a hand other than that of the main scribe in the edge margin of f. 88r claims that the adjacent text and similar material is found in ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 85v-92v

6. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 93r-115v

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 93r-115v
Title:
Kitāb Jiranīs كتاب جرنيس
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 93r-115v

7. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 116r-119r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 116r-119r
Title:
Kitāb al-aḥjār كتاب الأحجار
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 116r-119r

8. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 119r-126r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 119r-126r
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 119r-126r

9. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 126r-197r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 126r-197r
Title:
al-Kitāb al-majmūʻ fī khawāṣṣ al-aḥjār الكتاب المجموع في خواص الأحجار Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 126r-197r

10. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 199r-200r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 199r-200r
Title:
Bāb nuqila min kitāb ākhar li-Suqraqṭis باب نقل من كتاب آخر لسقرقطس Suqraqṭis سقرقطس
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 199r-200r