Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Alchemical compendium.

Authors

• Ḥusaynī, Ibrāhīm, active 15th century
  حسيني، ابراهيم،

Other related names

• Mūsawī, ʻAbd al-Razzāq, former owner
  موسوي، عبد الرزاق ,

Call number

LJS 403
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9950814943503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122490957
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5081494 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs403.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 901-904 (1496-1499)

Place

Herat, Afghanistan

Summary

Working notes of an alchemist, who signs himself as the compiler and composer of the manuscript (f. 127v). Lacking at least one leaf at the beginning, if not more (early pagination begins at 2, f. 1r), with repairs on extant first and last leaves. Includes a commentary on an unknown text and references to the concept of balance found in the work of 8th-century alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān and to Pythagoras. Many marginal notes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

173 leaves : 153 x 98 (115-130 x 65-80) mm. bound to 158 x 115 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 173; [1-173], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto; earlier pagination in ink, 2-347 (f. 1v-173v). References in this record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Rebound in reddish-brown leather without boards and a flap that covers the fore-edge, but does not extend over the textblock.

Layout

Written in 15-24 long lines.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq script in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Mūsawī (stamp, f. 6v).
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 2001.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Anthologies
• Commentaries
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

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