Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Q. 2 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: رسالة في علم الرمل An anonymous and untitled Arabic treatise on Geomancy, beginning abruptly,
without even the Bismi'lláh:
باب فی حلال الرمل، اعلم ان اوّل بيت النفس والثاني بيت المال الخ The book contains a good many obscure poems, e.g. (f. 3) one beginning: ضاحكًا بنور وفخر
وطالع في جوده كالبحر،
وانه من احسن الدليلي
يبين لاهل الدین یا خلیلی
This MS. was acquired from the same source and on the same occasion as the last. It comprises 96 ff. of 22'2 x 15'8 c. and 17 ll., and is written throughout in
a bold but indifferent naskh, not dated, but modern.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 96
Dimensions: 22.2 × 15.8 cm.

Layout

17 lines

Hand(s)

bold but indifferent naskh

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS., obtained in the last partition of the Belshah collection.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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