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Zāyirjah : manuscript

Title
Zāyirjah : manuscript.
زايرجة : مخطوطة.
Production
Place not identified, 18th century.
Physical Description
1 volume (10 leaves) ; 24 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger based on the term "zāyirjah" whch is mentioned several times in the text.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá ashraf al-mursalīn, Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Wa-hādhā al-malfūẓ bi-al-nisab al-ʻashrah 67 ḥarfan, wa-waqf al-lafẓ min ḥarf Dāl min Aḥmad, kamā tará. Ifham turshad. H Ṭ R ʻA B M R H Y ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله ربّ العالمين، والصلاة والسلام على أشرف المرسلين، سيدنا محمد، وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم. وهذا الملفوظ بالنسب العشرة 67 حرفًا، ووقف اللفظ من حرف دال من أحمد، كما ترى. افهم ترشد. هـ ط ر ع ب م ر هـ ي ..."
Secundo folio: ilá an yakhruja al-zimām wa-ʻalāmat al-zimām.
بداية الورقة الثانية: إلى أن يخرج الزمام وعلامة الزمام.
17.5 x 24 cm; written surface: 13 x 19.5 cm; 23 lines per page.
Binding: The pamphlet is wrapped with a folded sheet of paper used as a cover.
In fair naskh script, in black ink, on cream paper; some notes on the margins; tables, magic squares; no catchwords.
On the front of the wrapping sheet: "Muḥammad Afandī Ḥajjāj."
على وجه ورقة الغلاف: "محمد أفندي حجاج."
The name "al-Dimyāṭī" is mentioned on folio 1b and 5b, as an author/commentator of/on "zāyirjahs".
يرد اسم "الدمياطي" على الورقات 1ب و 5ب، كمؤلف/شارح "زايرجات".
On folio 5b is mentioned "Zāyirjat ʻAbd al-Wahhāb".
على الورقة 5ب ترد "زايرجة عبد الوهاب".
Colophon: No colophon. Text ends with the phrase: "Khudh al-ḥurūf al-malfūẓah" (repeated three times).
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
A treatise on "Zāyirjah", a medieval term (probably of Persian origin), comprising fortune-telling, divination, magic, astrology, occultism, etc., by using tables of numbers and letters. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
March 13, 2023
References
Zāyirjah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Zāyirjah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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