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Title

Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm al-miftāḥ fī al-ḥikmah al-Ilāhīyah wa-al-ṣināʻah al-falsafīyah wa al-natījah al-ʻalīyah.
كتاب المصباح ونزهة الارواح في علم المفتاح في الحكمة الالاهية والصناعة الفلسفية و النتيجة العلية

Authors

• Jaldakī, Aydamar ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1349-1361
  جلدكي، ايدمر بن عبد الله،

Other related names

• Shams al-Dīn ibn ʻAbbās, active 1562, scribe
  شمس الدين بن عباس،
• Tūqātī, ʻUbayd Allāh Bektāsh, former owner
  توقاتي، عبيد الله بكتاش،
• Selim II, Sultan of the Turks, 1524-1574, former owner

Call number

LJS 441
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9950507863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122591902
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5050786 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs441.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 970 (1562)

Place

Aleppo

Summary

Two works on alchemy copied together in different hands. The first, a 14th-century treatise based on the work of the 8th-century alchemist and chemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, copied in A.H. 970 (1562); the second, a pseudo-Platonic work on alchemy with commentary (tafsīr) attributed to Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. Some marginal notes. The first work may be missing leaves after folio 51.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title of first work from title page (f. 1r); title of second work from introduction (f. 93v).
   

Extent

128 leaves : 212 x 155 (165-170 x 110-115) mm. bound to 213 x 160 mm

Foliation

Paper, 128; [1-128], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Later morocco, bottom cover blind-stamped with a central mandorla, top cover laid with paper (cream over blue) decorated with a cut-out pattern.

Layout

Written in 21 (f. 1-92) and 27 (f. 93-128) long lines.

Decoration

3 drawings of plants in red ink (f. 91r-91v), with green coloring added to one of them; penwork in black and red ink around colophon of first work (f. 92v); 2 circular diagrams inside upper cover; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in a naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Bektāsh al-Tūqātī and then held in the library of Sultan Selim II (inscription, f. 93r).
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), Nov. 2002.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Formerly owned by Bektāsh al-Tūqātī and then held in the library of Sultan Selim II (inscription, transcribed by Nicholas Harris, f. 93r).
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Diagrams
• Drawings
• Treatises

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Diagram, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Table, f. 1r
• fol. 91r — Drawing, f. 91r
• fol. 91v — Drawing, f. 91v
• fol. 92v — Decorated colophon, f. 92v