Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 441]

Prayers and charms. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 441 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 379 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 379. B 441. Size 8 in. by 43/4 in. foll. 28. Twenty-four lines in a page. Fol. 1. The beginning of a treatise by NAṢÎR AL-DÎN ṬÛSÎ (d. A.H. 672), on a method of taking omens. It is said to have been revealed to him in a dream, by the Imâm Mahdî صاحب الزمان. Beginning: الحمدلله...اما بعد فقال افضل العلماء...کنت متفکرا فی بعض الاوقات فی عمل شئ علی سبیل الفأل الخ. Foll. 2-8. The concluding portion of a cabbalistic treatise on the letters of the alphabet. With several magic circles. Written in a small current hand. Dated 22nd Ramaḍan, 1011. Foll. 15v.-16. A treatise in verse (Rajaz) on the fourteen letters called حروف التعویر, namely: ف ا ه م ی ص م و س د ک ع ف د. Beginning: یا سائلی عن احرف التغویر (!). Fol. 28v. The beginning of a treatise on the properties of the names of God. The rest of the volume is in Persian.