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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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, f 112v
Title:: Cancelled page of Ottoman alchemical poetry Anonymous
Scope & Content:: A page of anonymous alchemical poetry in Ottoman Turkish, which has been struck through and cancelled. Its catchword does not match the first word of the following folio. Begins (f. 112v, lines 2-3): گل ای نجم سعادت آفتابی ° اِشِت گل كيبی بو نازک جوابی ندندر سيم وزريا علم كميا ° قوپر هر قطردن...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: f. 112v

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 66v-67v
Title:: اين فصول از بعض كتب ستاذ كبير جابر Īn fuṣūl az ba‘z̤ī kutub-i ustaẕ kabīr Jābir Jābir ibn Ḥayyān جابر بن حيان
Scope & Content:: Five passages in Persian supposedly taken from the writings of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. The main bulk of the corpus of texts attributed to this semi-legendary figure, however, are thought to have been composed between the second half of the 9th century and first half 10th century. Since this text begin...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 66v-67v

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