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.
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
Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.
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