The lottery of the Abbasid Caliphs, Commanders of the Faithful, Qurʻat al-khulafāʾ al-ʻAbbāsīyah umarāʾ al-muʾminīn.
(قرعة الخلفاء العباسية امراء المؤمنين )

Title	The lottery of the Abbasid Caliphs, Commanders of the Faithful, Qurʻat al-khulafāʾ al-ʻAbbāsīyah umarāʾ al-muʾminīn.
Title Original	قرعة الخلفاء العباسية امراء المؤمنين
Publication Date:	1835
Publication Place	- [between 17--? and 1835].
Subject	Fortune-telling, Islamic magic, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, Illuminated manuscripts—18th century
Type	kitap
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	38
Library:	Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID	9947060423506421
Record ID	zg64tk99w
Library Location	Special Collections Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 551Hq
Date	01-01-1700 T00:00:00 AH/12-31-1835 T:KHZ:KHZZ — 1700-1835
Notes	A work on fortune-telling containing several astronomical and magic circles and charts. \| Ms. codex., Title from title page., 21 lines per page in two or four columns. Written in medium large naskh in black and red ink, with color (mainly red and blue) for the astronomical and magical circles. Frame made of two lines in red ink troughout. Fol. 36b probably written by another hand. Glazed European paper with watermark (see fol. 12-13). Several ownership statements on fol. 1a (the earliest dated reading 1250 H. [1834/5]). According to the catchwords, some leaves are missing (see between fol. 3b and 4a, with a mention in Latin in the upper margin of fol. 4a: "Hic desunt duo folia, cf. ms 550, fol. 8 vo seqq. [-](?). L."). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Pagination in pencil using Arabic numerals from fol. 16b on (i.e., the first page after the charts)., Contains 24 pages of "circles" (dāʻirah), starting with the "Dawāʾir al-suʾāl li-ikhrāj al-ḍamīr wa-al-ḥarf" and the "Dāʾirah li-jamʻ al-ḥurūf wa-maʻrifat al-manāzil", and ending with the "Dāʾirat al-mudun", followed by rhapsodomantic poems attributed to various authors., There is no colophon in the manuscript., Incipit: هذه دواير السوآل لاخراج الضمير والحرف, Explicit: وعنده مفتاح الغيب لا يعلمها الا هو ويعلم ما في البرد والحر وما تسقط من ورقة الا يعلمها ولا حية في ظلمات الارض ولا رطب ولا يابس الا في كتاب مبين \| Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboards, with the same blind stamped central medallion and an outer frame of blind fillets. Disbound. \| Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina). \| Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 965
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The lottery of the Abbasid Caliphs, Commanders of the Faithful, Qurʻat al-khulafāʾ al-ʻAbbāsīyah umarāʾ al-muʾminīn.

(قرعة الخلفاء العباسية امراء المؤمنين )

Publication Date 1835

Publication Place - [between 17--? and 1835].

Subject Fortune-telling, Islamic magic, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, Illuminated manuscripts—18th century

Type kitap

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 38

Library Princeton University Library

Library Asset ID 9947060423506421

Record ID zg64tk99w

Library Location Special Collections Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 551Hq

Date 01-01-1700 T00:00:00 AH/12-31-1835 T:KHZ:KHZZ — 1700-1835

Notes A work on fortune-telling containing several astronomical and magic circles and charts. | Ms. codex., Title from title page., 21 lines per page in two or four columns. Written in medium large naskh in black and red ink, with color (mainly red and blue) for the astronomical and magical circles. Frame made of two lines in red ink troughout. Fol. 36b probably written by another hand. Glazed European paper with watermark (see fol. 12-13). Several ownership statements on fol. 1a (the earliest dated reading 1250 H. [1834/5]). According to the catchwords, some leaves are missing (see between fol. 3b and 4a, with a mention in Latin in the upper margin of fol. 4a: "Hic desunt duo folia, cf. ms 550, fol. 8 vo seqq. [-](?). L."). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Pagination in pencil using Arabic numerals from fol. 16b on (i.e., the first page after the charts)., Contains 24 pages of "circles" (dāʻirah), starting with the "Dawāʾir al-suʾāl li-ikhrāj al-ḍamīr wa-al-ḥarf" and the "Dāʾirah li-jamʻ al-ḥurūf wa-maʻrifat al-manāzil", and ending with the "Dāʾirat al-mudun", followed by rhapsodomantic poems attributed to various authors., There is no colophon in the manuscript., Incipit: هذه دواير السوآل لاخراج الضمير والحرف, Explicit: وعنده مفتاح الغيب لا يعلمها الا هو ويعلم ما في البرد والحر وما تسقط من ورقة الا يعلمها ولا حية في ظلمات الارض ولا رطب ولا يابس الا في كتاب مبين | Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboards, with the same blind stamped central medallion and an outer frame of blind fillets. Disbound. | Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina). | Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 965

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Koleksiyonlar Robert Garrett, Middle East Manuscripts, Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts, Collections Donated to Princeton University Library