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Sloane MS 2696
- Record Id:
- 040-002115067
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000653.0x00017d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108186171.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 2696
- Title:
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Miscellany of texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs
- Scope & Content:
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An anonymous notebook containing texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs, interspersed with notes and a prayer.
Divisions of the text:
- (1) Lughat al-jawhar wa-asmāʾ al-jawāhir wa-manāfiʿhā (كتاب لغة الجوهر واسماء الجواهر ومنافعها, ff.1v-20v);
A text enumerating different types of gemstones including rubies, emeralds, topaz, diamonds, turquoise, agate, magnetite, emery, and lapis lazuli, as well as pearls and coral. Their qualities, variants, colours, values, and medical uses are listed. The text is interrupted by a page of notes (f. 5r) comprising an account of Noah's ark, a calligraphic exercise, notes on the ascendant planets governing days of the week, and a list of herbal ingredients including opium, saffron and henbane.
- (2) Tawārīkh salṭanat Ibn ʿUthmān (تواريخ سلطنة ابن عثمان, f.21r-21v);
A list of the Ottoman Sultans from ʿUthmān I, with notes of feats including the conquests of Istanbul, Aleppo and Cyprus. Accession dates and lengths of rule are given up to the end of Sultan Murād III's (مراد) reign in 1595. The accession of Muḥammad III (محمد, r. 1595-1603) is also recorded. A note of ingredients for manufacturing soap (f. 21v), followed by a continuation of (1) Lughat al-jawhar wa-asmāʾ al-jawāhir wa-manāfiʿihā (f. 22r), about magnetite;
- (3) Maʿrifat al-ʿushb (معرفة العشب, ff. 22v-25r);
A text on the properties, origins, and values of different plants and herbs with instructions for their alchemical use.
- (4) f. 26v-26r: A prayer.
The volume is decorated with a roughly-executed frontispiece in gold, green, red and blue, with lettering in red (f. 1v); and a diagram of a talismanic engraving in gold, green and blue, depicting a triangle enclosed in a circle with lettering indicated in red (f. 7v).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-4):
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين
نكتب لغة الجوهر وأسماء الجواهر ومنافعها
أول اسم عام لجميع الأحجر المعدانية
النفيسة...
Ends (f. 26r, lines 3-4):
ارحمني وعلمني صلاحاً وادباً ومعرفة
فاني امنت بوصاياك
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
Sloane Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002115067 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 2696 : Miscellany of texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[2690]/040-002115067
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Vertical format codex; ff. ii+25+xxi+2+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000653.0x00017d
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1595
- End Date:
- 1603
- Date Range:
- 1595-1603
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: A mixture of Eastern and Western laid paper, some repurposed from larger sheets.
Dimensions: 77 x 61 mm leaf [69 x 56 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: No ruling for main text; perpendicular misṭarah rulings at larger dimensions visible on some blank folios. 12-14 lines per page, variable.
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink; calligraphic exercise on f. 5r in light brown ink
Decoration: Frontispiece (f. 1r) and diagram (f. 7r); see Content.
Binding: Vertical format British Museum brown leather binding gold-stamped with M. B. (Museum Brittanicum)
Condition: Good, some dirt.
Marginalia: Latin notes: 'Libellus de Gemmis; no. 41; Parandis medicamentis juxta dispositionem astrorum. (f. 27v)
Seals: British Museum seals (ff. 1v, 26r, 27v).
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 38, pp. 52.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)