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IO Islamic 4041

Record Id:
032-004341856
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004341856
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4041
Title:
Three works on raml
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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032-004341856
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 volume (9 ff.,27 ff.,14 ff.)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1650
End Date:
1800
Date Range:
1650-1800
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Nāṣir ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥaydar Rummāl Shīrāzī
Subjects:
Divination--Early works to 1800
Numerology
TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 4041

Three works on raml

Contents

Collection of three works on raml or numerology from different dates and origins, most are defective or incomplete

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1650-1800 17th-18th centuries CE ; India

a

Contents

1. ff. 1v-9v

Versified treatise on raml or numerology and occult science through letters and numerology

Incomplete at end

Not dated and lacking colophon

No diagrams

Previous owner’s notes: 1) Bal Gobind; 2) Budh Rai; 3) SND (?) Das

Language(s): Persian
Title: Zubdat al-raml
Title: زبدة الرّمل

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 9 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 180 mm.

History

Origin: 1650-1700 1650 - 1700 CE ; India

b

Contents

2. ff. 10r-37v
Title: Lubb-i albāb
Title: لبّ الباب

Treatise on raml or numerology and occult science through letters by Nāṣir ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥaydar "Rummāl" Shīrāzī

The work describes itself as a mukhtaṣar, written at the suggestion of Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ʿAlavī, in refutation of Imām ʿAbd Allāh "Ibn al-Zanātī" (sic), addressing common falsehoods and the secretive tendency

Organised into 11 faṣl

Colophon (f. 37v): written by Pungav Lal, 57 (sic) July 1790

Annotations on raml making horoscopic prognostications (ff. 38r-40v)

Language(s): Persian
Author: Nāṣir ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥaydar "Rummāl" Shīrāzī

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 27 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 180 mm.

History

Origin: 1790-07 July 1790 CE ; India

c

Contents

3. ff. 41r-54v

Untitled treatise in prose and verse on raml or numerology and occult science through letters, with special reference to the calculation of horoscopes

Endorsed with the title Tuḥfat al-asrār, which may not be original

Diagrams

Not dated

Annotations and tables (ff. 52r-54v) relating to months of the Indic luni-solar calendars; incomplete

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 14 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 180 mm.

History

Origin: 1775-1800 1775 - 1800 CE ; India

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