Baḥr al-ʻUyūn
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1800
Place of publication: India?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Islamic magic; Early works to 1800; Talismans; Persian Manuscripts
Description: On magic, including sīmiyā and rīmiyā. This work closely resembles Kāshifī's Asrār-i Qāsimī, also called Siḥr al-ʻUyūn.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from p. 5.

Pagination: Contemporary pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink, upper center.

Layout: 17 long lines with some symbols and diagrams.

Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink, pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red. Some diagrams and symbols in black and red.

Origin: Item is undated and the colophon is scrubbed; likely produced in 19th century India.

Shelfmark: MS Or 60.

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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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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Persian.

Red half leather binding with green marbled paper sides.

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