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Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 93r-115v
- Record Id:
- 040-004376383
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003693958
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100167885081.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 93r-115v
- Title:
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Kitāb Jiranīs كتاب جرنيس
- Scope & Content:
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Arabic version of the first book of the Kyranis (Κυρανίς, جرنيس, written here حرنيس), a late-antique Greek magical text known in English as the Kyranides or Cyranides. Book One is arranged alphabetically according to the twenty-four letters of the Greek alphabet, with a plant, bird, stone and fish listed for each letter along with their healing and harming properties (خواص) and instructions for making amulets (خاتم, pl. خواتم) that combine the properties of these natural substances.
Blank spaces for images meant to be engraved on amulets are left unfilled in the text on ff. 95v, 96v, 97v-101r, 102r, 103r, 104r-107r, 108r-109r, 110v-112r, and 113r-115r.
Contents:
(1) Letter Alpha (حرف الألف, ff. 93v-96r);
(2) Letter Beta (حرف الباء, ff. 96r-96v);
(3) Letter Gamma (حرف الغين, ff. 96v-97v);
(4) Letter Delta (حرف الدال, ff. 97v-98v);
(5) Letter Episilon (حرف الدال [!], ff. 98v-99r);
(6) Letter Zeta (حرف الزا, ff. 99r-99v);
(7) Letter Eta (حرف الإيطا, ff. 99v-100r);
(8) Letter Theta (حرف التيطة, ff. 100r-101r);
(9) Letter Iota (حرف اليوطا, ff. 101r-101v);
(10) Letter Kappa (حرف قبا, f. 101v);
(11) Letter Lambda (حرف الليطة, ff. 101v-102r);
(12) Letter Mu (حرف ما, ff. 102r-103r);
(13) Letter Nu (حرف الني, ff. 103r-104r);
(14) Letter Xi (حرف إكسي, ff. 104r-105r);
(15) Letter Omicron (حرف أو , ff. 105r-106r);
(16) Letter Pi (حرف البي, ff. 106r-106v);
(17) Letter Rho (حرف الراو, ff. 106v-107r);
(18) Letter Sigma (حرف السيمة, ff. 107r-108v);
(19) Letter Tau (حرف الطا, ff. 108v-109r);
(20) Letter Upsilon (حرف الإي, ff. 109r-109v);
(21) Letter Phi (حرف العبة [!], perhaps read الفي, ff. 109v-111v);
(22) Letter Chi (حرف الشين, ff. 111v-112v);
(23) Letter Psi (حرف الإبسي, ff. 112v-113r);
(24) Letter Omega (حرف الآ, ff. 113r-115v).
Begins (f. 93r, lines 2-5):
كتاب حرنيس فيما تكلم به في الأربعة وعشرين حرفها (!)
وخواصها ومنافعها قال حرنيس إنا وجدنا
سارية من حديد ملصقة بالطول طبا (!) فافتتحناها
فوجدنا في داخلها كتابًا وضع على لسان (!) السرياني
Ends (f. 115v, lines 9-12):
... فإذا شربه الصحيح زال
عقله ودواء الذي تزول عقله من ذلك تأكل خطافًا
مشويًا فإذا برئ مثله (؟) عما كان فيه فلا يجيب (؟) ولا يدري
ما كان فيه ...
Colophon (f. 115v, lines 12-14):
... تم كتاب حرنيس
والحمد لله كما هو أهله
ومستحقه شكرًا مخلصًا
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003693958
040-004376383 - Is part of:
- Delhi Arabic 1946 : Collection of texts on talisman making and related occult sciences
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 93r-115v : Kitāb Jiranīs كتاب جرنيس - Hierarchy:
- 032-003693958[0006]/040-004376383
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Ff. 93r-115v
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
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Edition of the Greek text:
- Kaimakis, Dimitris, Die Kyraniden (Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1976)
Edition of the Latin and Old French versions:
- Delatte, Louis, Textes latins et vieux français relatifs aux Cyranides (Paris: Droz, 1942)
Edition of the Arabic version:
- Toral-Niehoff, Isabel, Kitāb Ǧiranīs: die arabische Übersetzung der ersten Kyranis des Herms Trismegistos und die griechischen Parallelen herausgegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert (Munich: Utz, 2004)
English translation of the Greek text of Book One:
- Waegeman, Maryse, Amulet and Alphabet: Magical Amulets in the First Book of Cyranides (Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1987)
Studies:
- Saif, Liana, 'A Preliminary Study of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica: Texts, Context, and Doctrines', Al-ʻUsūr al-Wusṭā 29 (2021), pp. 20-80, esp. 67-68 https://doi.org/10.52214/uw.v29i1.8895
- Ullmann, Manfred, 'Die arabischen Fragmente der Bücher II bis IV der Kyraniden', Studia Graeco-Arabica 10 (2020), pp. 49–58 https://doi.org/10.53130/2239-012X-2020-6
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Talismans