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2781. Or 12802

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12802
Title:
Kitāb al-aḥkām ‘alá al-nisbah al-falakīyah كتاب الأحكام على النسبة الفلكية Sahl ibn Bishr سهل بن بشر
Scope & Content:
A treatise on interrogatory astrology by Abū ‘Uthmān Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isrā’īlī (أبو عثمان سهل بن بشر الإسرائيلي; AD 786-c 845). The copy was produced by an anonymous scribe on the night of 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1093 (5 December 1682). Folio 45r contains an astrological table written by a hand that a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1093
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+45+iii

2782. Or 12830

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12830
Title:
Ghars al-anshāb fī al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb غرس الأنشاب في الرمي والنشاب Suyūṭī سيوطي
Scope & Content:
A compilation of hadiths, reports, verses and comments on the subject of archery by the prolific Egyptian jurist and historian Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي, d. 1505). This work (see title on ff. 1r, line 2, and 1v, line 7) c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
4 Muḥarram 918
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+35+xviii

2783. Or 13006

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006
Title:
Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two manuscripts. The first (ff. 3-112) was the notebook of Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī, who copied into it thirteen alchemical texts between 919 AH/AD 1513 and 925 AH/AD 1519, first at Fez and then at Damascus (see colophons on ff. 11r, 14r, 57r and 66r). The second (f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
919-1177
Extent:
Codex; ff. 159+i

2784. Or 13006, f 14r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, f 14r
Title:
Extract from Kitāb al-Ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam (كتاب الغيث المسجم في شرح لامية العجم) Ṣafadī, Khalīl ibn Aybak صفدي، خليل بن أيبك
Scope & Content:
An extract concerning the life and alchemical writings of Muʾayyad al-Dīn abū Ismāʿīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭughrāʾī (d. 515 AH/AD 1121) from Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī’s (ca 1297-1363) Kitāb al-Ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam. This text has ben copied in a much smaller...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 920
Extent:
f. 14r

2785. Or 13006, f 159r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, f 159r
Title:
Anonymous fragment of a treatise on practical chemistry
Scope & Content:
Instructions for the production of a distilled ‘hot water’ (ماء حار ; f. 159r, line 23, transcribed below) that can split and dissolve stone. The text begins abruptly and appears to have been copied by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (محمد بن سليمان الموصلي) (see colophon, f. 158v, line 21). B...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1181
Extent:
f. 159r

2786. Or 13006, f 159v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, f 159v
Title:
Anonymous instructions for producing perfumes
Scope & Content:
Lines 1-9 give instructions for producing false ambergris (عنبر); lines 9-15 give instructions for a distillation process for oil of cloves and roses; and lines 16-17 give brief instructions for the washing of ṭaḥīnah. Begins (f. 159v, lines 1-4): خذ من الشب ٣٠ درهم ومن البارود ٣٠ درهم وقطرهم ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1181
Extent:
f. 159v

2787. Or 13006, ff 3r-11r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, ff 3r-11r
Title:
Risālah nāfi‘ah fī ghāyat al-naf‘ wa-al-nafāsah lam yu‘raf muṣannifuhā رسالة نافعة في غاية النفع والنفاسة لم يعرف مصنّفها
Scope & Content:
A treatise on the elixir containing many extracts from poetical and prose sources. The text was copied in late Rajab 919 (Sept-Oct 1513) at al-Madrasah al-Maulawiyyah al-ʿAlawiyyah in Fez by Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī (see colophon, fol. 11a). Although the title states that the author is ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rajab 919
Extent:
ff. 3r-11r

2788. Or 13006, ff 11v-14r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, ff 11v-14r
Title:
Risālah li-Abī Hishām al-Amīr Khālid رسالة لأبي هشام الأمير خالد Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī خالد بن يزيد الأموي
Scope & Content:
A treatise on alchemy attributed to Abū Hāshim Khālid ibn Yāzīd al-Umawī (ca 48 AH/AD 668 - 85 AH/AD 704), the Umayyad prince credited (probably spuriously) with sponsoring the first translations in Islam, and notably the first translations of alchemical texts into Arabic (Ibn Nadīm, Fihrist, 30...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rajab 919
Extent:
ff. 11v-14a

2789. Or 13006, ff 14v-57r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, ff 14v-57r
Title:
Kitāb Tarākīb al-anwār كتاب تراكيب الأنوار Ṭughrāʾī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:
An influential alchemical treatise by Muʾayyad al-Dīn abū Ismāʿīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭughrāʾī (d. 515 AH/AD 1121), a high-ranking Seljuq vizier and the most important alchemist of his time. The text was copied in early Raǧab 925 (June/July 1519) at Damascus by Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ād...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rajab 925
Extent:
ff. 14v-57r

2790. Or 13006, ff 57v-66r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, ff 57v-66r
Title:
Untitled alchemical treatise ذومقراطيس Democritus
Scope & Content:
An introduction to the principles of alchemy spuriously ascribed to Democritus. This Democritus is not the atomist philosopher of Abdera, but the Greek alchemical authority of the same name, sometimes equated with Bolos of Mendes. The text’s style and content suggest that it is not, in fact, a G...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rajab 925
Extent:
ff. 57v-66r

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