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Jamal-ad-Din Abu'l-Mahasin Yusuf bin Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Nadrumi al-Gharanati (fl. 1384-1397), Qabs al-anwar wa jami' al-asrar fi khawas al-asma' wa'l-huruf wa'l-hayawan wa'l-ahjar, a treatise on the magical properties of names, letters, animals and stones North Africa, late 18th/early 19th Century
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Jamal-ad-Din Abu'l-Mahasin Yusuf bin Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Nadrumi al-Gharanati (fl. 1384-1397), Qabs al-anwar wa jami' al-asrar fi khawas al-asma' wa'l-huruf wa'l-hayawan wa'l-ahjar, a treatise on the magical properties of names, letters, animals and stones
North Africa, late 18th/early 19th Century
North Africa, late 18th/early 19th Century
Arabic manuscript on paper, 61 leaves, 27 lines to the page written in neat maghribi script in black ink, significant words and numbers picked out in red, catchwords, numerous spaces left blank, intended for tables and diagrams, incomplete at beginning (probably missing one folio), trimmed and crudely repaired, contemporary reddish-brown morocco gilt with stamped central medallions decorated with arabesques and floral motifs, with flap, edges of spine crudely repaired
215 x 158 mm.
215 x 158 mm.
Footnotes
The epithet al-Gharanati in the author's name indicates that he was from Granada.
There are two copies of this work in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. See A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, vols. VI and VII, Dublin 1963 and 1964, p. 7 no. 4518 and p. 22, no. 5068 respectively; see also Brockelmann, GAL, G II, 252; S II, 358.