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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kashf al-fitan bi-lawāmiʻ al-minan كسف الفتن بلوامع المنن / Fol. 1a in pencil: Kitāb fī ʻilm al-jafr wa-fī ʻilm al-ḥarf li-baʻḍ al-ʻuqalāʼ / Kashf al-fitan bi-lawāmiʻ al-minan fī ʻilm al-jafr

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Title

  • Kashf al-fitan bi-lawāmiʻ al-minan

Other Title

  • كسف الفتن بلوامع المنن
  • Fol. 1a in pencil: Kitāb fī ʻilm al-jafr wa-fī ʻilm al-ḥarf li-baʻḍ al-ʻuqalāʼ
  • Kashf al-fitan bi-lawāmiʻ al-minan fī ʻilm al-jafr

Summary

  • Treatise on gematria and divination; first section consists of a poem and commentary; second section explains and gives examples in the use of gematria..

Names

  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [late 18th century?]

Headings

  • -  Divination--Islamic countries
  • -  Gematria
  • -  Qurʼan--Hermeneutics
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1b.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; heavy, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and an elaborate armorial watermark, mostly obscured; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 15 x 8.5 cm.
  • -  Diagram on fol. 16a; grid diagrams on fol. 16b and 26a.
  • -  Fol. 1b-26a.
  • -  "81. IX [669] = 5.618."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-618.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه عوني وهو حسبي. الحمد لله الذي علم الانسان خواص الاحرف الجفرية ووفق لادراك غوامضها من خلفه وحقه بالالطاف الخفية والصلاة والسلام على من عنه الامتدادات الكلية والجزئية محمد واله واصحابه اولي الفضل على التمرية ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وهو سهل ان شاء الله تعالى مع حضور الدهر والقطب هو الوتد وقسمة الحروف والشكل الهندي المرموز ولوح الموازين والطبايغ وهو هذا فافهم ترشد وبالله التوفيق.

Medium

  • 26 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 27.7 x 16 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BF1773.2.I74 K37 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496530

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Kashf Al-Fitan Bi-Lawāmiʻ Al-Minan. [Late 18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496530/.

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Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Kashf Al-Fitan Bi-Lawāmiʻ Al-Minan. [Late 18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496530/.

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Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Kashf Al-Fitan Bi-Lawāmiʻ Al-Minan. [Late 18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496530/>.