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Language Arabic Subject Divination--Early works to 1800

1. Add MS 7473, ff 64r-81r

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Add MS 7473, ff 64r-81r
Title:
al-Juz’ al-awwal min kitāb al-jafar الجزء الأول من كتاب الجفر
Scope & Content:
Treatise on divination drawing on the authority of Aristotle, Daniel and Solomon. Contents: Begins (f. 63v, lines 7-10): في التبصرة في شرح الشهور العربية والرومية وبروجها وما فيها ومنازل القمر والأنواء وطلوع المنازل وغرب النظائر Ends (f. 81r, line 25): عيد التجلى تسعة وعشري منه مقتل يوحن...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 64r-81r

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Delhi Persian 853

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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)

8. Delhi Persian 1398

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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)

9. Harley MS 262

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 262
Title:
Kitab-i Remel - كتاب رمل
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the book of remel, or divination by means of dots. The preamble of the text tates that it was composed for Hārūn al-Rashīd by a sage known as ᶜAbdallah ibn Ani. The instructions given for consulting it are as follows: make at random an indefinite number of dots on sand or p...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 82 ff

10. Harley MS 5490

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5490
Title:
[Mecmua]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains texts in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian. The following 17 texts are in Ottoman Turkish, unless otherwise noted: (I) ff 4r-16v : Necatu'l-garik, a religious poem by Hüdai under the heading 'Haza risale fi'l-cem' ve'l-tefrik el-müsemma bi-Necatu'l-garik.' The author's n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
21 texts, 374 ff

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