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Ijtimā` al-shaml fī ṭarīq al-raml

Title	Ijtimā` al-shaml fī ṭarīq al-raml
Publication Date:	1478-1479 (883H)
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	383 mm x 292 mm x 64 mm (height x width x depth)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Ar 3120
Library Location	Arabic collection
Date	1478-1479 (883H)
Notes	Ijtimā` al-shaml fī ṭarīq al-raml: Compendium of geomancy, and other methods of divination. Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, modern coated linen (red buckram) binding, 203 folios, Arabic text in naskh and thuluth scripts, with illuminated headings (fols. 4v, 5r) and roundels (shamsa, fols. 5r, 6r), and red diagrams and tables throughout, collection (majmū`) of texts on occult scientific systems of geomancy (`ilm al-raml) and other divination methods (incomplete text, with many folios out of sequence), (1: fols. 2v-4v) Ikhtiyārāt al-ayyām, (2: fols. 6r-40v) Ijtimā` al-shaml fī ṭarīq `ilm al-raml, (3: fols. 41r-203v) al-Ḥukm `ala al-ashkāl al-ramlīya wa tarḥīlihā fī al-buyūt al-sitta `ashar min kalām al-Ḥukamā’ al-Arba`, noted as produced for the treasury (bi-rasm khizānat, fol. 6r) of Mamluk Sultan Qaytbay (r. 1468-1496), and ordered from/by the personal library (ashāra bi-kātibihi al-maqarr al-ashraf, fols. 5r, 8v)of Yashbak Min Mahdī Dawādār (d. 1480, one of Qaytbay’s principal amirs), copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥasanī al-mukattib (al-Farnawī, d. 1500), student (tilmidh) of Burhān al-Dīn al-mukattib, probably Cairo, Egypt, dated 883H (fol. 4v), 1478-1479.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Codex
Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri	Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥasanī al-Mukattib, Cairo (probably)
Yazı Tipi	Naskh script, Rayhan script

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Ijtimā` al-shaml fī ṭarīq al-raml

Publication Date 1478-1479 (883H)

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 383 mm x 292 mm x 64 mm (height x width x depth)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Ar 3120

Library Location Arabic collection

Date 1478-1479 (883H)

Notes Ijtimā` al-shaml fī ṭarīq al-raml: Compendium of geomancy, and other methods of divination. Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, modern coated linen (red buckram) binding, 203 folios, Arabic text in naskh and thuluth scripts, with illuminated headings (fols. 4v, 5r) and roundels (shamsa, fols. 5r, 6r), and red diagrams and tables throughout, collection (majmū`) of texts on occult scientific systems of geomancy (`ilm al-raml) and other divination methods (incomplete text, with many folios out of sequence), (1: fols. 2v-4v) Ikhtiyārāt al-ayyām, (2: fols. 6r-40v) Ijtimā` al-shaml fī ṭarīq `ilm al-raml, (3: fols. 41r-203v) al-Ḥukm `ala al-ashkāl al-ramlīya wa tarḥīlihā fī al-buyūt al-sitta `ashar min kalām al-Ḥukamā’ al-Arba`, noted as produced for the treasury (bi-rasm khizānat, fol. 6r) of Mamluk Sultan Qaytbay (r. 1468-1496), and ordered from/by the personal library (ashāra bi-kātibihi al-maqarr al-ashraf, fols. 5r, 8v)of Yashbak Min Mahdī Dawādār (d. 1480, one of Qaytbay’s principal amirs), copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥasanī al-mukattib (al-Farnawī, d. 1500), student (tilmidh) of Burhān al-Dīn al-mukattib, probably Cairo, Egypt, dated 883H (fol. 4v), 1478-1479.

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold

Nesne Adı Codex

Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥasanī al-Mukattib, Cairo (probably)

Yazı Tipi Naskh script, Rayhan script