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Title

Kitāb al-Tawākiz al-muḥarrarah wa-al-ḍamāʼir al-mustakhbarah.
كتاب التواكز المحررة والضمائر المستخبرة

Authors

• ʻAjamī, Kurdī Sayyidī Maḥmūd
  عجمي، كردي سيدي محمود

Other related names

• Haussmann, Carl Frederick, 1871-, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1898
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977459940903681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083523186

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1181 (1767)

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Work on divination of events and people; includes divination by letters, horoscopes, time keeping, planetary movements, etc. The work references 40 other books on similar topics at the beginning and lists their authors (f. 9v-15r); also contains several illustrations and numerous tables.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page and introduction (f. 7r, 7v).
   

Extent

232 leaves : 220 x 155 (160 x 110) mm bound to 220 x 155 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. One blank quire at the beginning and end of the work.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Blind stamped green paper onlay mandorla and cornerpieces. Blind stamped frame. Front cover is loose of the spine. Endbands in red and yellow thread in a chevron pattern.

Layout

19 long lines; frame ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Five labeled diagrams in green, yellow, red (f. 21-24r) and 39 letter tables in red and brown (f. 35r, 45r, 53r, 54v, 56v, 62r, 63r, 66v, 71v, 76v, 81v, 86v, 91v, 96v, 101v, 106v, 111v, 116v, 121v131v, 136v, 141v, 146v, 151v, 156v, 161v, 166v, 171v, 181v, 186v, 191v, 196v, 201v, 206v, 211v, 216v, 221v, 224v).

Script

Written in naskh in dark brown ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Carl Frederick Haussmann, given to the University of Pennsylvania 30 September 1910 (note in pencil, f. 225v).
   

Subjects topical

• Divination--Early works to 1800
• Islamic magic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 7r — Kitāb al-Tawākiz al-muḥarrarah wa-al-ḍamāʼir al-mustakhbarah.

Decorations

• fol. 21v — Diagram: "al-shakhṣ al-awwal"
• fol. 22r — Diagram: "al-shakhṣ al-awwal"
• fol. 22v — Diagram: "ṣifat waḍʿ al-buldān"
• fol. 23r — Diagram: "waḍʿ al-balad dhāt al-shamāl"
• fol. 24r — Circular diagram: letters, body parts, horoscope signs, qualities
• fol. 35r — Table
• fol. 45r — Table
• fol. 53r — Table
• fol. 54v — Table
• fol. 56v — Table
• fol. 62r — Table
• fol. 66v — Table
• fol. 71v — Table
• fol. 76v — Table
• fol. 81v — Table
• fol. 86v — Table
• fol. 91v — Table
• fol. 96v — Table
• fol. 101v — Table
• fol. 106v — Table
• fol. 111v — Table
• fol. 116v — Table
• fol. 121v — Table
• fol. 126v — Table
• fol. 131v — Table
• fol. 136v — Table
• fol. 141v — Table
• fol. 146v — Table
• fol. 151v — Table
• fol. 156v — Table
• fol. 161v — Table
• fol. 166v — Table
• fol. 171v — Table
• fol. 176v — Table
• fol. 181v — Table
• fol. 186v — Table
• fol. 191v — Table
• fol. 196v — Table
• fol. 201v — Table
• fol. 206v — Table
• fol. 211v — Table
• fol. 216v — Table
• fol. 221v — Table
• fol. 224v — Table