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Or 13006, ff 3r-11r

Record Id:

040-002409244

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002404979

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000004791.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100023512370.0x000001

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

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 unknown, a note in the left-hand margin of f. 3a claims that the author is the monk Ibn al-Muhadhdhib and the title of the treatise is Idhhāb al-ẓulmah (مصنّف هذه الرسالة فضل ابن المهذّب الراهب اسمه [!] إذهاب الطلمة).

Begins (f. 3r, lines 3-8):

قال مخاطب الطالب لعلم الصنعة الإلهية والموهبة السنية شفقة عليه

وهداية له اعلم أيّها الحكيم والسيد العليم أيدك الله وإيانا بروح منه أنّا لما علمنا

بالنص عن من سبقنا من الحكماء والمؤيدين الفلاسفة المتقدمين أنّ علل المعادن

المنطرقة والمنسحقة أصول أعدتها الطبيعة آلة لما كوّنه جنس المعدن

الأنواع المندرجة تحته بالتكوين الطبيعي علمنا أنّ الحجر الأعظم الجوهر المكرم الذي

منه توليد الإكسير التام ...

Ends (f. 11r, lines 13-16):

والآن أذكر واضعها أيها الأخ الكريم الحكيم والسيد العظيم أيّدك الله بالتأييد

وشرّفك كقول داؤود في زبوره من حجر كريم بلّغك الله أملك وقضى

منك وطرك قبل انحلال الحرارة الغريزية وتباين الهيئة

العزيزية والحمد لله أوّلاً وآخرًا باطنًا وظاهرًا

Colophon (f. 11r, lines 17-20):

وصلوة على رسوله محمد وآله وصحبه أجمعين

وسلام على المرسلين

والحمد لله ربّ العالمين

فرغت

في أواخر شهر رجب

من شهور سنة ٩١٩

على يد قدرة الله

المرندي الأذري

كتبت بمدينة فاس صينت

عن الانطماس في المدرسة

المولوية العلوية

رحم الله

بانيها

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002404979
040-002409244

Is part of:

Or 13006 : Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman

Or 13006, ff 3r-11r : Risālah nāfi‘ah fī ghāyat al-naf‘ wa-al-nafāsah lam yu‘raf muṣannifuhā رسالة نافعة في…

Hierarchy:

032-002404979[0001]/040-002409244

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

ff. 3r-11r

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https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000003591.0x000001

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1513

End Date:

1513

Date Range:

Rajab 919

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

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:

al-Madrasah al-Maulawiyyah al-ʿAlawiyyah, Fez

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)