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Title

Baḥr al-ʻUyūn.
بحر العیون

Authors

• Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505
  کاشفى، حسین واعظ،

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 60
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13615971
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076493506
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_060.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13615971

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

18--?

Place

India?

Summary

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.
   

Extent

75 paginated leaves : 230 x 155 (180 x 110) mm, bound to 240 x 160 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Red half leather binding with green marbled paper sides.

Layout

17 long lines with some symbols and diagrams.

Decoration

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

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink, pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic magic--Early works to 1800
• Talismans--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Half covers
• Trough-marbled paper
• Codices
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 — Baḥr al-ʻUyūn

Decorations

• 8 — Symbol
• 9 — Symbol
• 23 — Symbols
• 24 — Symbols
• 25 — Symbols
• 32 — Symbols
• 51 — Diagram
• 52 — Symbols
• 63 — Table
• 85 — Symbol