Description of Columbia University. MS Or 152a: Incomplete text on letter magic. Columbia University. 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/. 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. 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. New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 152a 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 Unidentified text related to astrology and letter magic, includes copies of different ways of writing the alphabet. Text begins abruptly. Arabic Incomplete text on letter magic. former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1r [Incomplete text on letter magic].

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 8 leaves : 207 x 140 (170 x 106) mm Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto. 12-13 lines; border-ruled. Written in two styles of naskh in black and red; consistent use of hāʼ musalsalah; pointed, partially vocalized. 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). Illustration: human figure with textblock as torso Table: planets 17th or 18th century? Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Islamic magic Talismans--Religious aspects--Islam Manuscripts, Arabic Diagrams Tables (documents) Manuscripts