[Incomplete text on letter magic]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Language: ara
Subjects: Islamic magic; Talismans; Islam; Arabic Manuscripts
Description: Unidentified text related to astrology and letter magic, includes copies of different ways of writing the alphabet. Text begins abruptly.
Notes: Manuscript codex fragment.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto.

Layout: 12-13 lines; border-ruled.

Script: Written in two styles of naskh in black and red; consistent use of hāʼ musalsalah; pointed, partially vocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red, including special alphabets; textblock bordered in red, double rules; illustration of human body in brown and red inks with textblock as the torso (f. 3v); table of the planets in black and red (f. 8r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 152a.

Two unrelated manuscripts previously housed with this item have been separately cataloged as MS Or 152b and MS Or 152c.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

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