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11. Or 13006, ff 77r-91v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, ff 77r-91v
Title:
Selections from al-Rāzī’s al-Kutub al-Ithná ‘asharah (الكتب الإثنى عشرة) Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:
A summary of Books Two, Three, Six, Seven, and Nine of the Twelve Books (الكتب الإثنى عشرة) of the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925), his most complete exposition of the art of chemistry. In this copy, the summary of Book S...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 930
Extent:
ff. 77r-91v

12. Or 13006, ff 91v-96v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, ff 91v-96v
Title:
Extracts from Kitāb fī Maʿrifat al-ḥajar (كتاب في معرفة الحجر) Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn أحمد بن الحسين، ابن وحشية
Scope & Content:
Extracts from Kitāb fī Maʿrifat al-ḥajar (كتاب في معرفة الحجر) attributed to Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Qays al-Kasdānī (أبو بكر أحمد بن علي بن قيس الكسداني), known as Ibn Waḥshiyah (ابن وحشية; fl. first half of the 10th century). The passages extracted relate the opinions on alchemical matters...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 930
Extent:
ff. 91v-96v

13. Or 13006, ff 96v-98r

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Or 13006, ff 96v-98r
Title:
Excerpts from a commentary on the poem of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Tammām al-ʿIrāqī (عبد العزيز ابن تمام العراقي) Anonymous
Scope & Content:
An anonymous and untitled commentary on the alchemical didactic poem al-Qaṣīdah al-nūnīyah by Abū al-Iṣbaʿ ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Tammām al-ʿIrāqī (fl. late 4th AH/AD 10th century). Sezgin lists manuscripts of five commentaries on this poem (GAS 4, p. 290; see also Ullmann, 1972, p. 220). Begins (ff...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 930
Extent:
ff. 96v-98r

14. Or 13006, ff 98r-110v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, ff 98r-110v
Title:
Excerpts from a commentary on the alchemical poem Shudhūr al-dhahab (شذور الذهب)
Scope & Content:
Excerpts from an anonymous and unattributed commentary on the alchemical poem Shudhūr al-dhahab by Abū Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khalaf al-Anṣārī al-Jayyānī al-Andalusī, known as Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (died 593 AH/AD 1197). The title in full is given as follows (f. 98r, 11-15): في...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 930
Extent:

ff. 98r-110v

15. Or 13006, ff 111r-112r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, ff 111r-112r
Title:
Excerpts from the Risālah fī al-Ṣināʿah al-falsafīyah (رسالة في الصناعة الفلسفية) al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Bukhārī al-Naqshabandī السيد الشريف البخاري النقشبندي
Scope & Content:
Excerpts from the Risālah fī al-Ṣināʿah al-falsafīyah by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Bukhārī al-Naqshabandī, a native of Constantinople (see scribal correction above line 2, f. 111r). The compiler explains his method of abridgement and tells us a bit more about this unknown author in a note appended ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 930
Extent:

ff. 111r-112r

16. Or 13006, ff 113r-158r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, ff 113r-158r
Title:
Kitāb al-Wāfī fī al-Tadbīr al-kāfīكتاب الوافي في التدبير الكافي Maṣmūdī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad مصمودي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
A general treatise on practical chemistry, composed in Tilimsān in 897 AH/AD 1492 (see Ullmann, 1972, p. 245) by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maṣmūdī (محمد بن أحمد المصمودي). The text was copied on 27 Ramaḍān 1177 AH (30 March AD 1764) at Algiers by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (محمد بن سليمان المو...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
27 Ramaḍān 1177
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ff. 113r-158v