Tāj al-mulūk wa-bughyat al-mālik wa-al-mamlūk : manuscript and تاج الملوك وبغية المالك والمملوك : مخطوطة

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Title: Tāj al-mulūk wa-bughyat al-mālik wa-al-mamlūk : manuscript
تاج الملوك وبغية المالك والمملوك : مخطوطة
Alternative Title: Tāj al-mulūk 880-02
Durrat al-anwār
تاج الملوك 240-02/r
درة الأنوار
Creator: Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr, Muḥammad
ابن الحاج الكبير، محمد
Published / Created: 1598.
Publication Place: Place not identified
Abstract: Treatise on Islamic magic and occultism by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr al-Tilimsānī (an obscure author). Copied by ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī, on Monday, 4 Jumād Awwal, 1007 [?] (3 December, 1598). The date of the year is suspect; it has been erased and re-written in a different hand. 4 Jumād Awwal, 1007, falls on a Thursday not Monday. The manuscript was collated by Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khawjah (or al-Khūjah). Place of copying not mentioned
Description: In Arabic.
Title from folio 1a.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit (folio 1b): "Hādhā kitāb mukhtaṣar min Tāj al-mulūk wa-bughyat al-mālik wa-al-mamlūk. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Allāh, innī asʼaluka al-iʻānah ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl, wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallama taslīman kathīran. Qāla Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr // mubtadiʼan bi-bismi al-ilāh al-qadīri. al-Ḥamdu lillāhi alladhī ʻallamanā // sirra al-kunūzi wa-bihi awlānā ... Wa-sammaytuhu bi-Durrati al-anwāri // taḥqīqun fī ṣanāyiʻi al-abrāri ..."
Secundo folio: Wa-sammaytuhu bi-Durrati al-anwāri.
16.5 x 23.5 cm; written surface: 9 x 16.5 cm; 21 lines per page.
Binding: Brown leather binding with flap, covers embossed with central medallions, in four numbered quires.
In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; many commentaries and corrections on the margins; magic squares; text within double red frames; catchwords.
On folio 1a: "Hādhā kitāb mukhtaṣar min Tāj al-mulūk wa-bughyat al-mālik wa-al-mamlūk musammiyan [musammá] bi-Durrat al-anwār lil-fāḍil Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr al-Tilimsānī, wa-huwa ʻumdah fī al-funūn al-maʻdūmah, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá. Āmīn. Bi-jāh Sayyid al-Mursalīn."
On folio 1a: A medical snuff recipe for those afflicted with the spirits of the rebellious Jinn: "Ṣifat saʻūṭ lil-muṣāb bi-aryāḥ al-jān al-mutamarridīn ..."
On the margin of folio 136b, a coallation note: "Balaghah muqābalatan bi-ghāyat al-diqqah ʻalá yadinā. Kātibuhu al-faqīr Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khawjah."
On folios 137a and 138a-138b, medico-magical recipes, in a different hand.
Colophon (folio 136b): "Tamma hādhā al-kitāb fī yawm al-Ithnayn al-mubārak al-muwāfiq 4 arbaʻah khalat min shahr Jumād Awwal, sanat 1007 [?] alf wa-sabʻ sinīn [?] min al-Hijrah al-Nabawīyah ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-adhká [wa-azká] al-taḥīyah wa-sallama taslīman kathīran dāyiman abadan ilá Yawm al-Dīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. ʻAlá yad kātibihi al-faqīr ilá Allāh ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayh wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Tamm. Wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb wa-ilayhi al-marjiʻ wa-al-maʼāb. Wa-ilá Allāh tarjiʻ al-umūr. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam."
Translation of the colophon: "This book was concluded on blessed Monday, 4 Jumād Awwal, 1007 [?] of the Hijrah of the Prophet ... Copied by ... ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī ..."
Provenance: Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Extent: 1 volume (138 leaves) ; 24 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Arabic

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Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 195

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic 16th century
Arabic manuscripts
Resource Type: text
Subject (Name): Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr, Muḥammad.
Subject (Topic): Islamic magic
Islamic occultism
Subjects: Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr, Muḥammad
Islamic magic > Early works to 1800
Islamic occultism > Early works to 1800
16th century
Arabic manuscripts

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Citation: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr, Tāj al-mulūk wa-bughyat al-mālik wa-al-mamlūk. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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Object ID (OID): 32406732

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