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Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 119r-126r
- Record Id:
- 040-004376385
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003693958
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100167886133.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 119r-126r
- Title:
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Kitāb ʻUṭārid ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāsib fī manāfiʻ al-aḥjār wa-al-ḥiraz wa-ṭillismātihā wa-khawātim al-kawākib al-sabʻah كتاب عطارد بن محمد الحاسب في منافع الأحجار والحرز وطلسماتها وخواتم الكواكب السبعة
Ḥāsib, ʻUṭārid ibn Muḥammad حاسب، عطارد بن محمد
- Scope & Content:
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Lapidary including instructions for engraving amulets, talismans and seals of the seven planets byʿUṭārid ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāsib [here written al-Muḥāsib] al-Munajjim al-Bābilī (عطارد بن محمد الحاسب [المحاسب] المنجم البابلي, fl 9th century).
Blank spaces left for images meant to be engraved on amulets left unfilled in the text on ff. 119v, 121r-123r, and 124r-124v.
Begins (f. 119r, lines 5-8):
صنعة عمل خواتم الكواكب السبعة
خاتم زحل يصنع خاتمًا أسود فصه وخلقته
من رصاص أسود وهو الذي يقال له اطبوح وهو خاتم
إقرونس وترجمته مشقق الأرض ...
Ends (f. 125v, lines 6-10):
... فإذا تم صنعتها في الوقت الذي أمرتك
اكتب على جناحها هذا الكتاب وعلى صدرها هذا الكتاب
واكتب في صفيحة من نحاس ثم أدخله في جوفها وادفها (!)
في البرج وقابل بوجهها البرج فإنه يجتمع إليها من الحمام ما
لا تسعه البرج وهذا تنقش على الصفيحة التي وما في حرف الحمامة
Colophon (f. 126r, lines 1-3):
تم كتاب عطارد بن محمد الحاسب في منافع الأحجار
والحرز وطلسماتها وخواتم
الكواكب السبعة
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003693958
040-004376385 - Is part of:
- Delhi Arabic 1946 : Collection of texts on talisman making and related occult sciences
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 119r-126r : Kitāb ʻUṭārid ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāsib fī manāfiʻ al-aḥjār wa-al-ḥiraz wa-ṭillismātihā… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003693958[0008]/040-004376385
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Delhi Arabic 1946
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 119r-126r
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Studies:
- Bezza, Giuseppe, ‘ʿUṭārid: ʿUṭārid ibn Muḥammad al‐Ḥāsib’, in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 1163-64
- 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
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ḥāsib, ʻUṭārid ibn Muḥammad, Astrologer, astronomer, fl 9th century
- Subjects:
- Talismans