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1. Or 13006

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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

2. Or 13006, f 159v

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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

3. Or 13006, f 112v

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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

4. Or 13006, f 159r

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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

5. Or 13006, ff 57v-66r

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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

6. Or 13006, ff 111r-112r

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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

7. Or 13006, ff 3r-11r

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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

8. Or 13006, ff 113r-158r

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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
Extent:

ff. 113r-158v

9. 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

10. Or 13006, ff 98r-110v

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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