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Three works on raml

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Collection of three works on raml or numerology from different dates and origins, most are defective or incomplete

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 17th-18th centuries CE ; India

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Contents

1. ff. 1v-9v

Versified treatise on raml or numerology and occult science through letters and numerology

Incomplete at end

Not dated and lacking colophon

No diagrams

Previous owner’s notes: 1) Bal Gobind; 2) Budh Rai; 3) SND (?) Das

Language(s): Persian
Title: Zubdat al-raml
Title: زبدة الرّمل

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 9 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 180 mm.

History

Origin: 1650 - 1700 CE ; India

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Contents

2. ff. 10r-37v
Title: Lubb-i albāb
Title: لبّ الباب

Treatise on raml or numerology and occult science through letters by Nāṣir ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥaydar "Rummāl" Shīrāzī

The work describes itself as a mukhtaṣar, written at the suggestion of Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ʿAlavī, in refutation of Imām ʿAbd Allāh "Ibn al-Zanātī" (sic), addressing common falsehoods and the secretive tendency

Organised into 11 faṣl

Colophon (f. 37v): written by Pungav Lal, 57 (sic) July 1790

Annotations on raml making horoscopic prognostications (ff. 38r-40v)

Language(s): Persian
Author: Nāṣir ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥaydar "Rummāl" Shīrāzī

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 27 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 180 mm.

History

Origin: July 1790 CE ; India

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Contents

3. ff. 41r-54v

Untitled treatise in prose and verse on raml or numerology and occult science through letters, with special reference to the calculation of horoscopes

Endorsed with the title Tuḥfat al-asrār, which may not be original

Diagrams

Not dated

Annotations and tables (ff. 52r-54v) relating to months of the Indic luni-solar calendars; incomplete

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 14 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 180 mm.

History

Origin: 1775 - 1800 CE ; India

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