Ḥall al-ṭilsam wa-kashf al-sirr al-mubham; حل الطلسم وكشف السر المبهم

Alternate Title:

Ḥall al-ṭilasm wa-kashf al-sirr al-mubham; Ḥall al-ṭillasm wa-kashf al-sirr al-mubham

Name:

Ghamrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1499 or 1500

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1772

Description:

Work on alchemy.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Acquired in 2014.

Relation:

The Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366295; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex1963.html

Subject:

Talismans; Islamic magic; Divination -- Religious aspects; Divination; Divination -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800; Islamic magic -- Early works to 1800; Talismans -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800; Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Alchemy; Divination -- Religious aspects -- Islam

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts)

Physical Description:

40 leaves : paper; 230 x 170 (170 x 90) mm bound to 235 x 187 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from introduction (f. 2r); alternate titles supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Contemporary foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink, upper left recto. Later pagination also in Hindu-Arabic numerals added in pencil, lower center.; Layout: 26 long lines.; Script: Written in informal naskh; pointed, unvocalized.; Decoration: Rubrications in red including some marginal headers. Medallions in a different red also appear in the margins, though these may be a later addition. Four leaves of modern handmade paper added to the ends when the text was rebound.; Binding: Quarter covers with the remnants of blue paper over card; brown leather spine.; Origin: The copy was finished on 18 Shaʻbān 1186 (13 November 1772).; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1963

Collection:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund