A Collection of Treatises on Occult Sciences, Mamluk Egypt or Syria, 2 Ramadan AH 717...

Signed Muhammad 'Ali bin Tamim al-Muqri al-Khatib. A collection of short treatises in one volume on magic properties of letters, numerals, symbols and magic squares, Arabic manuscript on paper, 94ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 21ll. of black mamluki, titles and important words in red, including numerous diagrams and tables in red and black, with modern pencil pagination, catchwords, dated and signed on f.73, later added marginal notes, text interspersed with some later replacement folios, in later 18th or 19th century reddish brown morocco with flap.