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Manuscript/Mixed Material Sharḥ al-Ṣafadī ʻalá rumūz al-Shajarah al-nuʻmānīyah شرح الصفدي على رموز الشجرة النعمانية / Sharḥ al-Ṣalāḥ al-Ṣafadī raḥimahu Allāh Taʻālá ʻalá Rumūz al-Shajarah al-Nuʻmānīyah li-mawlānā al-Shaykh al-Akbar

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Title

  • Sharḥ al-Ṣafadī ʻalá rumūz al-Shajarah al-nuʻmānīyah

Other Title

  • شرح الصفدي على رموز الشجرة النعمانية
  • Sharḥ al-Ṣalāḥ al-Ṣafadī raḥimahu Allāh Taʻālá ʻalá Rumūz al-Shajarah al-Nuʻmānīyah li-mawlānā al-Shaykh al-Akbar

Summary

  • Commentary on Ibn al-ʻArabī's Shajarah al-Nuʻmānīyah on astrology.

Names

  • Ṣafadī, Khalīl ibn Aybak, approximately 1297-1363
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [late 17th century?]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-ʻArabī.--1165-1240.--Shajarah al-nuʻmānīyah
  • -  Islamic astrology--Early works to 1800
  • -  Predictive astrology--Early works to 1800
  • -  Arabic alphabet--Symbolic aspects--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from cover.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; slightly yellowed, polished medium cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and partial watermark of a cluster of grapes and an indistinct countermark; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 447.126
  • -  Taʻlīq script; 23 lines in written area 16 x 6.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-20b.
  • -  "18. III 1098 = 3.356."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-356.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله واهب الاسرسر لاهل الاستبصار وصلاته وسلامه على نبيه المختار وعلى اله واصحابه ... وبعد فاني ذاكر في هذه الرسالة بهض اسرار تلمحنها في دائرة الشجرة النعمانية التي الفها قطر دائرة اهل التحقيق الشيخ الاكبر ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على سيدنا محمد واله اجمعين، امينز تمت.

Medium

  • 20 leaves (23 lines), paper : bound ; 21.7 x 13 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BF1714.A6 I2637 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496868

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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Chicago citation style:

Ṣafadī, Khalīl Ibn Aybak, Approximately, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ al-Ṣafadī ʻalá rumūz al-Shajarah al-nuʻmānīyah. [Late 17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496868/.

APA citation style:

Ṣafadī, K. I. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ al-Ṣafadī ʻalá rumūz al-Shajarah al-nuʻmānīyah. [Late 17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496868/.

MLA citation style:

Ṣafadī, Khalīl Ibn Aybak, Approximately, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ al-Ṣafadī ʻalá rumūz al-Shajarah al-nuʻmānīyah. [Late 17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496868/>.