Project / Collection: Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme / Archive Reference (shelfmark): Or 13006 / Subject: Alchemy--Early works to 1800 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) Or 13006 Subject Alchemy--Early works to 1800

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

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