Manuscript/Mixed Material Image 1 of Rasāʼil thalāthah fī ʻilm al-raml

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Title

  • Rasāʼil thalāthah fī ʻilm al-raml

Other Title

  • رسائل ثلاثة في علم الرمل
  • Title on fol. 1a: Hādhihi Risālat Sayyidī al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Shādhilī fī al-raml ... wa-rasāʼil akhar li-baʻḍ ʻulamāʼ al-fann
  • Rasāʼil al-arbaʻah fī ʻilm al-raml

Summary

  • Collection of 4 treatises on raml (geomancy).

Names

  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Shādhilī, Muḥammad
  • Barbarī, Khalaf
  • Hindī, Ṭamṭam
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 2 Ramaḍān 1300 [7 July 1883]

Contents

  • Fol. 1b-14b. Wāḍiḥ al-mubīn fī ḍarb al-raml wa-al-shakkīn / Muḥammad al-Shādhilī -- fol. 14b-16b. [Anonymous treatise on geomancy] -- fol. 16b-21a. al-Qawāʻid al-aṣlīyah fī maʻrifat al-ashkāl al-ramlīyah -- fol. 21a-23b. Kitāb Ṭūl al-gharīb wa-maẓhar al-ʻajāyib / Khalaf al-Barbarī wa-Ṭamṭam al-Hindī.

Headings

  • -  Geomancy
  • -  Magic squares
  • -  Divination
  • -  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; unpolished medium cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of three crescent moons in a row in decreasing order of size; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 23 lines in written area 18.5 x 12 cm.
  • -  Numerous diagrams and illustrations in red and black ink showing squares, symbols and other calculations throughout the manuscript.
  • -  Fol. 1b-23b.
  • -  "81. IX [674] = 5.621."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-621.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
  • -  Incipit (1st work): البسملة. الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم. وبعد اطلعت على مطول في علم الرمل واردت اختصاره المبين ... وسميته بالواضح المبين في ضرب الرمل والشكين ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon (1st work): تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليما في 2 رمضان سنة 1300، الف وثلثماية من هجرته عليه السلام.

Medium

  • 23 leaves (23 lines), paper : bound ; 23.7 x 17 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BF1745 .R37 1883

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496826

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, Muḥammad Shādhilī, Khalaf Barbarī, Ṭamṭam Hindī, and Mansuri Collection. Rasāʼil Thalāthah Fī ʻilm Al-Raml. [2 Ramaḍān 7 July 1883, 1300] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496826/.

APA citation style:

Manṣūrī, M. A., Shādhilī, M., Barbarī, K., Hindī, Ṭ. & Mansuri Collection. (1300) Rasāʼil Thalāthah Fī ʻilm Al-Raml. [2 Ramaḍān 7 July 1883] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496826/.

MLA citation style:

Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, et al. Rasāʼil Thalāthah Fī ʻilm Al-Raml. [2 Ramaḍān 7 July 1883, 1300] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496826/>.