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Title

Sirr al-asrār fī ʻilm al-āthār ; Shamsīyah fī al-kashf ʻan mā awdaʻ fī al-Jadāwil al-zahrīyah.
سر الاسرار في علم الاثار ؛ شمسية في الكشف عن ما أودع في الجداول الزهرية

Authors

• Shāfiʻī, Shams al-Dīn
  شافعي، شمس الدين
• Shāfiʻī, Shams al-Dīn
  شافعي، شمس الدين،
• Khiṭāʼī, ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active in 1426
  خطائي، عمر بن احمد بن علي

Other related names

• Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1918
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977406951103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1059578477

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1799?)

Place

Morocco?

Summary

Set of texts about geomancy. The second is a commentary and abridgement of a longer work on geomancy (ʻilm al-raml) by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Khitāʼī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title of the manuscript from title of the first work (f. 1r) and the title of the second work (f. 37v).
   

Extent

66 leaves : 215 x 160 (175 x 110) mm bound to 215 x 170 mm

Foliation

Modern western foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather over paperboard with flap (Type II); covers blind stamped with central mandorla with paper onlay and frame; flap also blind stamped with paper onlay. Binding is in poor condition: flap has separated and front cover is held on only by two hinges.

Layout

21-23 long lines; frame ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications; many leaves of tables included (f. 15r, 17r, 18r, 18v, 21r, 23r, 29r, 30v, 43v-66r inclusive).

Script

Written in naskh in black.

Provenance

• Accessioned by the Libraries, 1891.
   
• Likely acquired by Talcott Williams in Morocco; from The Daily Pennsylvanian, 5:18, 20 November 1889: "The University has recently received eighteen Arabic manuscripts, embracing judicial, historical and poetic works. These were procured by Mr. Talcott Williams, in his recent trip to Morocco".
   

Subjects topical

• Divination--Religious aspects--Islam
• Geomancy

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--16th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Sirr al-asrār fī ʻilm al-āthār
• fol. 37v — Shamsīyah fī al-kashf ʻan mā awdaʻ fī al-Jadāwil al-zahrīyah.

Decorations

• fol. 15v — Table
• fol. 18r — Table
• fol. 18v — Table
• fol. 23r — Table
• fol. 29r — Table
• fol. 30v — Table
• fol. 43v — Table
• fol. 44r — Table
• fol. 44v — Table
• fol. 45r — Table
• fol. 45v — Table
• fol. 46r — Table
• fol. 46v — Table
• fol. 47r — Table
• fol. 47v — Table
• fol. 48r — Table
• fol. 48v — Table
• fol. 49r — Table
• fol. 49v — Table
• fol. 50r — Table
• fol. 50v — Table
• fol. 51r — Table
• fol. 51v — Table
• fol. 52r — Table
• fol. 52v — Table
• fol. 53r — Table
• fol. 53v — Table
• fol. 54r — Table
• fol. 54v — Table
• fol. 55r — Table
• fol. 55v — Table
• fol. 56r — Table
• fol. 56v — Table
• fol. 57r — Table
• fol. 57v — Table
• fol. 58r — Table
• fol. 58v — Table
• fol. 59r — Table
• fol. 59v — Table
• fol. 60r — Table
• fol. 60v — Table
• fol. 61r — Table
• fol. 61v — Table
• fol. 62r — Table
• fol. 62v — Table
• fol. 63r — Table
• fol. 63v — Table
• fol. 64r — Table
• fol. 64v — Table
• fol. 65r — Table
• fol. 65v — Table
• fol. 66r — Table