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2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Dream interpretation and Divination

1. ff. 1-218
Author: Kharkūshī, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad, -1016 الخركوشي، عبد الملك بن محمد، ت. 407 هـ
Title: Al-bishārah wa-al-nidhārah fī taʿbīr al-ruʾyā wa-al-murāqaba
Title: كـتـاب الـمـواقـف و يـلـيـه كـتـاب الـمـخـاطـبـات

Treatise on the interpretation of dreams

There is some discrepancy in the MSS as to the number of chapters contained in the work, which varies between 58 and 60. The presen MS has 58 chapters, and the preface here explicitly states the same.

Incipit: بلغنا و الله اعلم اول من دبّر في امر الاختلاج و ضربان الجوارح وبحث عنه ذو القرنين اسكندر

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 634 and 1922
GAL I 200, no. 2; Suppl. I 361
2. ff. 218v-223r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Short treatise on divination from the throbbing of various parts of the body

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 1922

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 223 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 19.7 × 15.1 cm.
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21 lines per page

Hand(s)

Written in Naskhī by Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Bakr al-Fanāʾ al-Dimishqī; important words in red.

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History

Origin: Dated, 9th Jumādā II 980 AH ; Hama

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on H. L. Gottschalk et al.: Islamic Arabic Manuscripts. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts. Vol. IV. Revised edition edited by Derek Hopwood. Birmingham: Selly Oak Colleges, 1985, with additional enhancements.

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