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9.10 Occult Arts: ʿIlm Aʿdād Al-Wafq
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§ 864. Works of unknown date:

(1)
al-Aʿdād wa-’l-aufāq, in a muqaddimah, two bābs and a k̲h̲ātimah, by Yaḥyā b. Aḥmad Kās̲h̲ānī: D̲h̲arīʿah ii p. 233 no. 926 (old ms. in the S̲h̲aik̲h̲ al-Islām’s library at Zanjān).
(2)
al-Aʿdād wa-’l-aufāq (beg. al-Ḥ. l. al-Wāḥid al-Fard al-Ṣamad), by M. Ibrāhīm known as (al-s̲h̲ahīr bi-) Sharīʿat-madār: D̲h̲arīʿah ii p. 233 no. 922 (seen in a majmūʿah dated 1287/1870).
(3)
G̲h̲āyat al-murād fī wafq al-aʿdād, by Ṣūfī Kamāl al-Tustarī: ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 20 no. 10.
(4)
G̲h̲āyat al-murād fī wafq al-aʿdād (beg. Sp. u st. bar wafq i aʿdād i nā-mutanāhī), by Ṣūfī Kamāl al-Tustarī (described by Ethé, but doubtless incorrectly, as “a detailed work on arithmetical and astronomical calculations”), in forty chapters ((1) dar baḥt̲h̲ i ʿilm i ḥisāb …, (2) dar k̲h̲awāṣṣ i wafq i dū dar dū u dū dar sih, etc.): Bodleian 1558 (141 foll., the first five supplied. ah 1075/1664).
(5)
Kanz al-aʿdād: Leningrad Univ. 1143 (ah 1044/1634–5. Romaskewicz p. 12).
(6)
K̲h̲itām i maḥmūd (?) (beg. Qusimat al-ṣalātu bainī wa-baina ʿAbdī niṣfain), “tractatum cabbalisticum”: de Jong (Batavia) p. 236 no. 182 (18) (ah 860/1456).
(7)
Kunh al-murād fī wafq al-aʿdād (beg. Ḥamdī bar wafq i aʿdād i nā-mutanāhī), in a muqaddimah, three lauḥs and a k̲h̲ātimah, by Yaʿqūb b. S̲h̲ams al-Dīn M. b. ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ṭāʾūsī: Ḥ. K̲h̲. v p. 260, Blochet ii 900 (196 foll. ah 894/1489), 901 (ornate copy, said to have been transcribed from the original ms. 115 foll. ah 994/1585): Bodleian 1562.
(8)
(R. dar wafq i aʿdād,) a large work in a muqaddimah, five bābs and a k̲h̲ātimah: Rieu ii 487a (acephalous, but with a spurious beginning in which the work is ascribed to Abū Maʿs̲h̲ar Balk̲h̲ī. Lacks part of the muqaddimah and nearly all the k̲h̲ātimah 237 foll. 13th cent.).
(9)
Risālah fī ’l-ḥurūf wa-’l-wafq (beg. al-Ḥ l. ḥaqqa ḥamdihi): Cairo p. 514.
(10)
Risālah fī ’l-wafq wa-’l-ḥurūf: Cairo p. 513.
(11)
Risālah i aʿdād al-wafq: Āṣafīyah ii p. 1678 nos. 181, 182.
(12)
(R. i aʿdād i wafq) (beg. Bi-dān asʿadaka … kih īn risālah mus̲h̲tamil ast bar muqaddamah u dū maqālah u k̲h̲ātimah): Leyden iii p. 187 no. 1248 (10 foll.).
(13)
R. i Qānūn al-wafq, by Abū ’l-K̲h̲air [b.?] Abū ’l-Maʿālī “Maʿnī”: ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 17 no. 103.
(14)
Zubdat al-aʿdād: ʿAlīgaṛh Subḥ. mss. p. 17 no. 101 (ah 1189/1775).

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