MS Arabic 529 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)

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

Author: Anonymous
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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