Language: Arabic / Subject: Magic--Early works to 1800 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Language Arabic Subject Magic--Early works to 1800

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23390, ff 50v-87v
Title:: ‘Uyūn al-ḥaqā’iq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarā’iq عيون الحقائق وإيضاح الطرائق ‘Irāqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad عراقي، محمد ابن أحمد
Scope & Content:: An exhaustive treatise on the magical arts based upon writings attributed to Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Galen as well as more recent authorities. The author's name is given in full as Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, known as al-‘Irāqī in Khusrawshāh (أبو القاسم أحمد ابن محمد المعروف بال...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: ff. 50v-87v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14185A
Title:: Treatise on magic, astrology and divination
Scope & Content:: An Armenian manuscriptcontaining: A treatise on magic, astrologyand divination, including prayers, invocations, powerful names and crudesketches of figures or radiant faces surrounded by pseudo-letters, and largesections of leaves divided into compartments filled with text, symbols, numerals. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Armenian, and Persian
Date Range:: Second half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 243 ff

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