Manuscript/Mixed Material Rasāʼil fī ʻilm al-ḥarf رسائل في علم الحرف

Title

• Rasāʼil fī ʻilm al-ḥarf

Other Title

• رسائل في علم الحرف

Summary

• Three treatises on numerology.

Names

• Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
• Walāyah, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Qāḍī al-Makkī
• Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1106 [1694 or 1695] (second work)]

Contents

• ʻIlm ẓuhūr al-ghawāmiḍ al-wujūd wa-ḥawādith al-duhūr -- Zahrat thamarat natījat natāyij al-ʻulūm al-ḥarfīyah -- Kitāb Miftāḥ al-asrār / Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Qāḍī al-Makkī al-shahīr bi-al-Walāyah -- Two leaves of notes in two different hands.

Headings

• -  Numerology--Early works to 1800
• -  Gematria--Early works to 1800
• -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

• -  Manuscript.
• -  Arabic.
• -  Title from spine.
• -  Scribe not identified.
• -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
• -  Place of writing not determined.
• -  Paper; thick light tan laid paper with nearly invisible horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; numerous grid diagrams in red and black throughout; catchwords.
• -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 15.5 x 8.5 cm.
• -  Fol. 1b-7a, 7b-15a, 16a-49b, 49-50.
• -  Numerous grid diagrams in red and black, and entirely in black throughout the entire work.
• -  "81. IX [670] = 5.619."
• -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-619.
• -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.

Medium

• 49 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 21 x 15.3 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

• BF1623.P9 R37 1694

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amedarabicmss.2016496594

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2016496594

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2016496594

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