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Or 13006
- Record Id:
- 032-002404979
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002404979
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000003591.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023511952.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 13006
- Title:
- Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman
- Scope & Content:
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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 (ff. 113r-159v) was copied in the 18th century, beginning with ff. 113r-158r copied in 1177 AH/AD 1764 by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣūlī in Algiers (see colophon on f. 158v).
The volume contains 16 alchemical texts:
- (1) Anonymous, Risālah nāfi‘ah fī ghāyat al-naf‘ wa-l-nafāsah lam yu‘raf muṣannifuhā (رسالة نافعة في غاية النفع والنفاسة لم يعرف مصنّفها) (ff. 3r-11r);
- (2) Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī (خالد بن يزيد الأموي), Risālah li-Abī Hishām al-Amīr Khālid (رسالة لأبي هشام الأمير خالد ) (ff. 11v-14r);
- (3) al-Ṣafadī, Khalīl ibn Aybak (الصفدي، خليل بن أيبك), Extract from Kitāb al-Ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam (كتاب الغيث المسجم في شرح لامية العجم) (f. 14r);
- (4) al-Ṭuġrāʾī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī (الطغرائي، الحسين بن علي), Kitāb tarākīb al-anwār (كتاب تراكيب الأنوار) (ff. 14v-57r);
- (5) Democritus (ذومقراطيس), Untitled alchemical treatise (ff. 57v-66r);
- (6) Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (جابر بن حيان), Ayn fuṣūl az ba‘z̤ kutub ustaẕ Jābir (اين فصول از بعض كتب أستاذ كبير جابر ) (ff.66v-67v);
- (7) al-Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar (الرازي، فخر الدين محمد بن عمر), Selections from Kitāb al-Mulakhkhaṣ (كتاب الملخص) concerning physics (ff. 67v-76b);
- (8) al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā (الرازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا), Selections from al-Rāzī’s al-Kutub al-Ithná ‘asharah (الكتب الإثنى عشرة) (ff. 77r-91v);
- (9) Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī (ابن وحشية، أحمد بن علي), Extracts from Kitāb fī Maʿrifat al-ḥajar (كتاب في معرفة الحجر) (ff. 91b-96b);
- (10) Anonymous, Excerpts from a commentary on the poem of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Tammām al-ʿIrāqī (عبد العزيز ابن تمام العراقي) (ff. 96v-98r);
- (11) Anonymous, Excerpts from a commentary on the alchemical poem Shudhūr al-dhahab (شذور الذهب) (ff. 98r- 110v);
- (12) al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Bukhārī al-Naqshabandī (السيد الشريف البخاري النقشبندي), Excerpts from the Risālah fī al-Ṣināʿah al-falsafīyah (رسالة في الصناعة الفلسفية) (ff. 111r-112r);
- (13) Anonymous, Cancelled page of Persian alchemical poetry (f. 112v);
- (14) al-Maṣmūdī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (المصمودي، محمد بن أحمد), Kitāb al-Wāfī fī al-Tadbīr al-kāfī (كتاب الوافي في التدبير الكافي) (ff. 113r-158v);
- (15) Anonymous, Fragment of a treatise on practical chemistry (f. 159r);
- (16) Anonymous, Instructions for producing perfumes (f. 159v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- 032-002404979
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- Contains:
- Or 13006, ff 3r-11r : Risālah nāfi‘ah fī ghāyat al-naf‘ wa-al-nafāsah lam yu‘raf muṣannifuhā رسالة نافعة في…
Or 13006, ff 11v-14r : Risālah li-Abī Hishām al-Amīr Khālid رسالة لأبي هشام الأمير خالد Khālid ibn Yazīd…
Or 13006, f 14r : Extract from Kitāb al-Ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam (كتاب الغيث المسجم في شرح…
Or 13006, ff 14v-57r : Kitāb Tarākīb al-anwār كتاب تراكيب الأنوارṬughrāʾī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي،…
Or 13006, ff 57v-66r : Untitled alchemical treatiseذومقراطيس Democritus
Or 13006, ff 66v-67v : اين فصول از بعض كتب ستاذ كبير جابرĪn fuṣūl az ba‘z̤ī kutub-i ustaẕ kabīr JābirJābir…
Or 13006, ff 67v-76v : Selections from Kitāb al-Mulakhkhaṣ (كتاب الملخص) concerning physicsRāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn…
Or 13006, ff 77r-91v : Selections from al-Rāzī’s al-Kutub al-Ithná ‘asharah (الكتب الإثنى عشرة)Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad…
Or 13006, ff 91v-96v : Extracts from Kitāb fī Maʿrifat al-ḥajar (كتاب في معرفة الحجر)Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn…
Or 13006, ff 96v-98r : Excerpts from a commentary on the poem of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Tammām al-ʿIrāqī (عبد العزيز ابن…
Or 13006, ff 98r-110v : Excerpts from a commentary on the alchemical poem Shudhūr al-dhahab (شذور الذهب)
Or 13006, ff 111r-112r : Excerpts from the Risālah fī al-Ṣināʿah al-falsafīyah (رسالة في الصناعة…
Or 13006, f 112v : Cancelled page of Ottoman alchemical poetryAnonymous
Or 13006, ff 113r-158r : Kitāb al-Wāfī fī al-Tadbīr al-kāfīكتاب الوافي في التدبير الكافيMaṣmūdī, Muḥammad…
Or 13006, f 159r : Anonymous fragment of a treatise on practical chemistry
Or 13006, f 159v : Anonymous instructions for producing perfumes
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- Codex; ff. 159+i
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Farsi
Persian
Turkish, Ottoman - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1513
- End Date:
- 1764
- Date Range:
- 919-1177
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm leaf [168 x 112 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic foliation in the purple crayon typical of Lebanese bookdealers of the 19th century
Ruling: Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm (ff. 113r-158v: 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 17 lines per 10 cm)
Script: Naskh with nasta‘līq tendencies and some titles in thuluth (ff. 113r-158v: naskh)
Scribes: Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī (ff. 3r-112v) and Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (ff. 113r-158v)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated, yellow and green headings and overlinings in red (ff. 113r-158v: black)
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Some worm damage, foxing, and tears towards the fore edge. Folios 19, 21 and 24 have been replaced.
Marginalia: Extensive marginal corrections, conjectures, glosses in Arabic and Persian and other evidence of collation and textual study (ff. 113r-158v: very few)
- Administrative Context:
- Damascus, Fez, Algiers
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)