Miscellany on prognostication

Description

Title: Miscellany on prognostication
Published / Created: 1607.
Publication Place: Place not identified
Abstract: Manuscript on paper, containing a miscellany on the topic of prognostication and the occult. Contains: Ma'rifat taqwim, Knowing the calendar; Fal nameh, A treatise for fortune-telling; and Nasi Ibn Muhammad Ibn Haydar Rammal Shirazi's Work on branches of the occult
Description: In Persian.
Layout: 1 column of around 12 lines.
Decoration: Rubrication.
Binding: Modern black gold-tooled binding.
Modern pencil foliation.
Contains some tables and diagrams.
Original text block appears to have been cut and surrounded by more modern paper, perhaps to remove original marginal annotations(?). New marginal annotations are added on top of the new marginal space.
Provenance: Marginal manuscript annotations.
Extent: 1 item (122 leaves) : 200 x 130 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Persian

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian 17th century
Annotations 18th century
Persian manuscripts
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Persian
Persian language and literature
Calendar
Fortune-telling
Occultism
Subjects: Manuscripts, Persian > Connecticut > New Haven
Persian language and literature > Early works to 1800
Calendar > Early works to 1800
Fortune-telling > Early works to 1800
Occultism > Early works to 1800
17th century
18th century
Persian manuscripts

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Citation: Miscellany on prognostication. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.