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Record Id:

040-002409262

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002404979

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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 الموصلي) (see colophon, f. 158v, line 21, transcribed below). Folio 146r is blank.

There are illustrations and a table on ff. 153v and 154r:

f. 153v:

Right: Illustration of a sealed vessel used for the sublimation. The top of the vessel, into which the gasses released by the substance being sublimed rise, is labeled سماءهم (‘their [i.e. the sages’/philosophers’] sky’); the middle is labeled إناءهم (‘their vessel’); and the bottom of the vessel, in which the substance to be sublimed rests, is labeled أرضهم الذي فيه السواد (‘their earth, which contains blackness’).
Left: Table indicating the varying degrees of heat, cold, dryness and moisture in a given substance.

f. 154r: Illustrations of three vessels for heating substances. The vessel depicted in line 17 is ‘an earthenware pot to be used buried in [hot] ashes’ (طاجين معمول مدفون في الرماد). The two vessels at line 25 are a two versions of a ‘crucible for ceration [i.e. softening by heat of solid substances that cannot be melted]’ (قدح التشميع).

Begins (f. 113r, lines 1-2 and 16-19):

الحمد لله الذي خلق السموات والأرض وجعل الطلمات والنور ثم الذين كفروا

بربهم يعد لون الحمد لله الواحد الأحد الفرد الصمد الذي لم يلد ولم يولد

... أما بعد أدام الله تشريف أرواح المؤمنين

أعلمكم أني لما دمت النظر الممارس والتفكر في كتب من مضامن قبلنا من العلماء والحكماء

الأجلاء الفضلاء المؤلفة في الصنعة الإلهية العظمى وتصاييف المتصفين فريت

أنها أم المصنائع وأخلها وأكثرها ...

Ends (f. 158v, lines 15-18):

... وقدان (؟) أن نختم هذا الكتاب بدعاء مرجو الإجابة يفر لأبي الحسن

الشاذلي رضي الله عنه اللهم على من انشقت الأسرار غلى آخرها وهي صلاة عبد السلام

بن مشبش رضي الله عنه ورحمه وأما من الكتاب وهو هذا وقل ربي لا إله إلا هو عليه

توكلت وإليه متاب وصلى الله على محمد عبدك ونبيك الرسول النبي الأمي وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم

Colophon (f. 158v, lines 19-27):

قد تمته هذا الكتاب في يوم الخميس في سبعة

وعشرين من شهر رمضان المبارك على يد أضعف

عباد الله محمد بن سليمان الموصلي في بلد الجزائر

المحروسة حرسها من جمع المكادة

آمين يا رب العالمين

سنة ١١٧٧

تم الكتاب بعون

الملك الوهاب

تم الكتاب بحمد الله الوهاب اللهم فتح على كاتبه وقارئه آمين

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002404979
040-002409262

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

Or 13006, ff 113r-158r : Kitāb al-Wāfī fī al-Tadbīr al-kāfīكتاب الوافي في التدبير الكافيMaṣmūdī, Muḥammad…

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Record Type (Level):

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Extent:

ff. 113r-158v

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1764

End Date:

1764

Date Range:

27 Ramaḍān 1177

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

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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:

Algiers

Publications:

Ullmann, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Maṣmūdī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 15th century