Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS Arabic 529 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)

Manuscripts in Arabic

Contents

Assorted writings in Arabic including invocations, verses from Qur'an and Hadith and talismanic tables

Title: Assorted writings in Arabic

Includes invocations, poetic verses, Qur'anic verses, talismanic tables and remarks on some of the sayings of the Prophet and the Companions.

Incipit: (basmala) fol.1a.1 بسم الله الرحمں الرحيم
Incipit: fol.1a.2 ومن نظر اليل والنهار لا يجد المصبة الدنيا والاخرة ومں نظر
ها دخل الجنة بغير حساب ومں نظرها ڢكانما حج بيت الحرام ومں نظر اليه ڢكانما تصدق ألف دينار
Explicit: (ending) fol.390a.1 اَلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ عَلَى كْلِ حَاِل سبحان الله والحمد لله ولا الله الا الله الله اكبر ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلى العظيم استغڢر الله العظيم
Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Unburnished; Watermark
Extent: 390 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 90 mm.
Foliation: Pencil, European;

Collation

Folios are of different types and sizes.

Condition

Deteriorated

Layout

Folios are in different layouts and there is no evidence of gathering or sewing.

Hand(s)

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black, brown and red

Scribe: Different hands

18 90 0.6 90 20

Decoration

Rubrication

Additions:
  • Fol.1b: Talismanic charts and illustrations.

Binding

178 × 146 mm. Rope; leather flaps.

History

Origin: Undated

Subjects

  • Hadith
  • Occultism--Religious aspects--Islam
  • Talismans
  • Divination

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