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Subject Divination--Early works to 1800 Level [40] File

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

Reference (shelfmark):
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. 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

3. 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

4. Harley MS 5522

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5522
Title:
Kitab-i Remel - كتاب رمل
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a book of remel, the science of divining through the use of dots. Its arrangement is largely similar to the text found in Harley MS 262. In a preface, the book is said to have been written for Hārūn al-Rashīd by 12 sages selected out of twelve thousand, and to comprise 144...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 76 ff

5. Or 5591, ff 185r-211v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5591, ff 185r-211v
Title:
Thirty-seven tables, diagrams and short texts related to astrology, divination and astral magic
Scope & Content:
Thirty-seven tables, diagrams and short texts related to astrology, divination and astral magic. Most of these are extracted from unknown sources, although the items on ff. 187v-188r and ff. 202v-203r mention Hermes (هرمس) and Dorotheus of Sidon (Δωρόθεος Σιδώνιος, ذوروثيوس, fl. AD 50-100) and t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0867
Extent:

Ff. 185r-211v

6. Royal MS 16 B XXI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 B XXI
Title:
[Kitab-i ihtilaçname] - [كتاب احتلاج نامه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a Segirname or treatise in tabulated form showing the omens to be drawing from throbbings in various parts of the body, under the heading Kitab-i ihtilaçname. It gives, in five columns, the import assigned to the throbbings by Cafer Sadık, the Prophet Daniel, İskander Zu'l-k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
2 texts, 7 ff (ff 13-19)