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Or 13006, ff 11v-14r
- Record Id:
- 040-002409246
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002404979
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000004793.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023512370.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 13006, ff 11v-14r
- Title:
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Risālah li-Abī Hishām al-Amīr Khālid رسالة لأبي هشام الأمير خالد
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī خالد بن يزيد الأموي
- Scope & Content:
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A treatise on alchemy attributed to Abū Hāshim Khālid ibn Yāzīd al-Umawī (ca 48 AH/AD 668 - 85 AH/AD 704), the Umayyad prince credited (probably spuriously) with sponsoring the first translations in Islam, and notably the first translations of alchemical texts into Arabic (Ibn Nadīm, Fihrist, 303). 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, f. 14r).
Incipit (fol. 11v, lines 3-6):
وبعد رأيت الناس قد طلبوا صنعة الحكمة في كل عصر ورأيت الحكماء
قديمًا كرهوا إذاعتها وصانوها عن الجهال وكانوا أكرم أخلاقًا وأحسن مذاهبًا
من أنْ يضنّوا بها بها [sic] على العقلاء الأبرار فلو لم يكتموها ويضعوها للكشف
والبيان والمصرّح فتصير إلى السفلة والأوضاع الرذلة ...
Explicit (fols 13v, line 16-14r, line 1):
... فيلزم بعضه
ببعض ويتمازجا ويصيرا شيئًا واحدًا لأنّ الطبيعة تلزم الطبيعةوالطبيعة تظفر بالطبيعة هذا حقّ لمن عقله وفهمه وكباريت
الأشياء أدهانها وبالأدهان يجري ومن أجل ذلك وقفوا عن الكباريت
وهي تصابر النار بعد التدبير ولا تفارقه الجسود ولا تأبق ولا تتغيّر
Colophon (fol. 14r, line 2-7):
تمّت الرسالة بحمد اللّه وحسن توفيقه
وصلّى اللّه على سيّدنا محمد خاتم
النبيين وعلى آله
وصحبه أجمعين
وسلم تسليمًا
كثيرًا
في أواخر شهر الله الأصمّ
من شهور سنة تسعة عشر
وتسعمائة على يد قدرة الله
المرندي الآذري
بأرض المغرب
بمدينة فاس صانها الله عن الاندراس
في المدرسة المولوية العلوية
روّح اللّه روح بانيها
آمين
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002404979
040-002409246 - Is part of:
- Or 13006 : Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman
Or 13006, ff 11v-14r : Risālah li-Abī Hishām al-Amīr Khālid رسالة لأبي هشام الأمير خالد Khālid ibn Yazīd… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002404979[0002]/040-002409246
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 13006
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- ff. 11v-14a
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000003591.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1513
- End Date:
- 1513
- Date Range:
- Rajab 919
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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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:
- al-Madrasah al-Maulawiyyah al-ʿAlawiyyah, Fez
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)