Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Other related names

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

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13622991
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1078438601
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_152a.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13622991

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

17th or 18th century?

Summary

Unidentified text related to astrology and letter magic, includes copies of different ways of writing the alphabet. Text begins abruptly.

Notes

• Manuscript codex fragment.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Two unrelated manuscripts previously housed with this item have been separately cataloged as MS Or 152b and MS Or 152c.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Layout

Decoration

Rubrications in red, including special alphabets; textblock bordered in red, double rules; illustration of human body in brown and red inks with textblock as the torso (f. 3v); table of the planets in black and red (f. 8r).

Script

Provenance

• Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic magic
• Talismans--Religious aspects--Islam
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 152a: Incomplete text on letter magic. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 152a: Incomplete text on letter magic.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Incomplete text on letter magic].

Decorations

• fol. 3v — Illustration: human figure with textblock as torso
• fol. 8r — Table: planets