Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 429] Fragment of a work on prayers

Prayers and Charms.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 429 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 338 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

338.

B 429. Size 91/4 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 89. Thirteen lines in a page.

A fragment of a work on prayers and cabbalistic matters, by Sharaf al-dîn Abu’l-‘Abbâs Aḥmad BÛNÎ (d. A.H. 622), the same as that described by Flügel, Hdss, Wien, ii. 566, 3.

Written in a large bold hand, of about the tenth century. Two leaves are wanting at the beginning. The first words are:

نسبة نور السها

Defective after foll. 6, 14, and 83, and at the end. Much injured.

That part which treats of the names of God (see Flügel, l.c.) has its own title (fol. 33), انماط اسماء الحسنی, and the name of the author is introduced at the beginning of it. It is probably mentioned as a separate work, in Ḥ. Kh. iv. 24, under شرح اسماء الحسنی, in the third place.

The part just spoken of had been placed at the beginning of this volume, and inscribed شرح اسماء الحسنی. Cf. Catal. 234, viii. 2 (?).

[ed note: Quick link to other manuscripts of Aḥmad ibn 'Alī Būnī.]