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IO Islamic 4051

Record Id:
032-004341866
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4051
Title:
Three works on esoteric and occult science
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 volume (14 ff.,22 ff.,15 ff.)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1746
End Date:
1850
Date Range:
1746-1850
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Abū ʿAlī Sīnā
Ḥusaynī Iṣfahānī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī Amīrān, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000140386620,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/181760170
Ḥusaynī Iṣfahānī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī Amīrān, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000140386620,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/181760170
Mawlavī Ibrāhīm ṣāḥib
Ṣaff Allāh (sic) ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī
Subjects:
Divination--Early works to 1800
Numerology
TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 4051

Three works on esoteric and occult science

Contents

Collection of three works on the esoteric science of jafr or divination by numbers and letters; various dimensions of each part

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1746-04-01-1850 18th-19th centuries CE ; India

a

Contents

1. ff. 412v-426r

Fragment of an untitled translation of the well-known treatise on jafr or numerology and isopsephy, the Kāfī of Abū ʿAlī Sīnā, into simple and understandable Persian prose

Translator not identified

The work is organised into 7 faṣl

Diagrams

Not dated and lacking colophon

Notes at end with numerological charts ascribed to a certain Mawlavī Ibrāhīm ṣāḥib

William Irvine number 332

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 14 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 160 mm.

History

Origin: 1750-1800 1750 - 1800 CE ; India

b

Contents

2. ff. 427v-447r
Title: Mushāriqah-'i jafrīyah
Title: مشارقه جفريّه

Treatise on jafr or numerology and isopsephy written in 870/1465-66

Folios tinted pale pink

Diagrams

Colophon (f. 446r): completed Thursday, 9 Rabīʿ I 1159/1 April 1746, by Ṣaff Allāh (sic) ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī

William Irvine number 333

Language(s): Persian
Author: Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Amīr "Ibn al-Ḥusaynī" al-Iṣfahānī غياث الدّين على ابن امير ابن الحسينى الاصفهانى

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 22 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 160 mm.

History

Origin: 1746-04-01 Thursday, 9 Rabīʿ I 1159 AH; 1 April 1746 CE ; India

c

Contents

3. ff. 448v-463v

Illustrated astrological treatise, showing signs of the zodiac and the famous constellations

Illustrations (47 in total) mostly in poor quality, dilute pigments, and a naïve style. Details of costume locate the paintings from early- to mid-nineteenth-century India

Not dated

William Irvine number 334

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 15 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 160 mm.

History

Origin: 1800-1850 1800 - 1850 CE ; India

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