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Title

Ḥall al-ṭilsam wa-kashf al-sirr al-mubham
حل الطلسم وكشف السر المبهم

Authors

• Ghamrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1499 or 1500
  غمري، احمد بن محمد،
• Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund

Call number

Ms. Codex 1963
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962565163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083523370

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1186 (1772)

Summary

Work on alchemy.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 2r); alternate titles supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

40 leaves : 230 x 170 (170 x 90) mm bound to 235 x 187 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink, upper left recto. Later pagination also in Hindu-Arabic numerals added in pencil, lower center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Quarter covers with the remnants of blue paper over card; brown leather spine.

Layout

26 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red including some marginal headers. Medallions in a different red also appear in the margins, though these may be a later addition. Four leaves of modern handmade paper added to the ends when the text was rebound.

Script

Written in informal naskh; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Acquired in 2014.
   

Subjects topical

• Divination--Religious aspects--Early works to 1800
• Islamic magic--Early works to 1800
• Talismans--Religious aspects--Early works to 1800
• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Divination--Religious aspects--Islam

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Ḥall al-ṭilsam wa-kashf al-sirr al-mubham

Decorations

• fol. 3v — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 4r — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 5r — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 6r — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 6v — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 8r — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 8v — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 9v — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 10v — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 13v — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 16v — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 20r — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 23v — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 24r — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 24v — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 27v — Marginal medallion and header
• fol. 31r — Marginal medallion and header