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

Title

Other related names

• Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957840863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/798281355
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5784086

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1799?

Summary

Two brief alchemical works written by a father for his son. Encoded alphabets are used occasionally in the manuscript, and a key is included (f. 3r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 349).
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Drawing in red and black ink of laboratory equipment, including mortar and pestle, furnace, and glass containers (f. 9v); rubrications in red.

Script

Provenance

• Ownership stamp (f. 9v).
   
• Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Islamic magic--Early works to 1800
• Alchemy
• Islamic magic

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Drawings
• Early works
• Codices

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 9v — Drawing, Alchemical equipment, f. 9v