Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār : manuscript
شموس الأنوار وكنوز الأسرار : مخطوطة
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Description
- Title
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Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār : manuscript
شموس الأنوار وكنوز الأسرار : مخطوطة - Alternative Title
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Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār
كتاب شموس الأنوار وكنوز الأسرار - Creator
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Ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1336
ابن الحاج، محمد بن محمد، -1336 - Published / Created
- 1887.
- Publication Place
- Place not identified
- Abstract
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"Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār" (Suns of lights and treasures of secrets), a treatise on Islamic magic and occultism, by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī al-Fāsī al-ʻAbdarī, Abū ʻAbd Allāh (died 1336), a Mālikī Islamic law scholar, from al-Maghrib (North Africa), who came to Egypt and died in Cairo. Copied on Friday, 2 Jumād al-Ākhir, 1304 (26 February, 1887) by Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī. Place of copying not mentioned
- Description
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In Arabic.
Title from folio 1b.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī awdaʻa ruqūm al-ḥurūf badāʼiʻ asrārih, wa-rakkaba minhā maʻāniya asmāʼih, wa-fajjara minhā yanābīʻ al-aʻdād wa-buḥūr al-awfāq bi-mawāhib anwārih, wa-wakkala rūḥānīyatan taqūmu wa-takhdumu arbābahā fī jamīʻ al-maṭālib, tadullu bi-surʻatihā ʻalá faradānīyatihi, fa-fataḥa bisāṭ al-uns, wa-aṭlaʻa man shāʼa min al-ins ʻalá ʻajāʼib malakūtihā mimman akhlaṣa min ʻibādih ..."
Secundo folio: ward wa-misk alf marrah.
15 x 22 cm; written surface: 9 x 17.7 cm; 25 lines per page.
Binding: In dark brown leather with flap; cover and flap embossed with central medallion.
In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in purple; many magic squares and a magic circle; on some leaves a seal with the phrase "Dawāwīn maṣraf"; some corrections on the margins; catchwords.
On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār li-Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī al-Maghribī, ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl, wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá kull ḥāl. M."
On folio 1b: "... wa-sammaytuhā bi-Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār ..."
Colophon: "Tamma bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ʻawnih. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min hādhā al-kitāb fī yawm al-Jumʻah al-mubārak, al-muwāfiq ithnayn Jumād al-Ākhir, sanat 1304, arbaʻah wa-thalāthmiʼah wa-alf, min al-Hijrah al-Nabawīyah, ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-atamm al-salām. Wa-kāna dhālika ʻalá yad kātibihi wa-nāqilihi al-faqīr ilá al-Karīm al-Wahhāb, ʻabduhu Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-lil-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn. Āmīn. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, al-Nabī al-ummī, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Āmīn. M."
Translation of the colophon: "It is completed by the praise of God and His help. The copying of this book was completed on blessed Friday, 2 Jumād al-Ākhir, 1304 of the Hijrah of the Prophet, may the best prayer and the most perfect peace be upon Him. Copied and transcribed by the hand of the poor to the Generous and Abundant Giving One, His servant, Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī, may God forgive him, his parents and all Muslims. Amen. Amen. Praise be to God Lord of the Universe. May God pray on our Master Muḥammad, the Illiterate Prophet, and on his family and companions and grant them peace. Amen. M." - Provenance
- Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
- Extent
- 1 volume (100 leaves) ; 22 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Arabic
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 549
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Arabic 19th century
Arabic manuscripts - Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Name)
- Ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1336.
- Subject (Topic)
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Islamic magic
Occultism - Subjects
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Ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1336
Islamic magic
Occultism
19th century
Arabic manuscripts
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- Public
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- Citation
- Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj, Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 14117143
- Object ID (OID)
- 32406519
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