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Title

Fawāʼid al-ḥabīb. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ.
فوائد الحبيب. زنجار الحكماء

Authors

• Ibn al-Bahāʼ, Abu ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad
  ابن البهاء، ابو عبد الله محمد
• Hāshimī, Aḥmad ibn Saʻd Allāh. ǂt Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ
  هاشمي، احمد بن سعد الله. ǂt زنجار الحكماء
• Anṣārī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, ǂe scribe
  انصاري، علي بن عبد الله، ǂe scribe

Other related names

• Fayz̤ī, Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak, 1547 or 1548-1595, former owner
  فيضى، ابو الفيض بن مبارک،
• Muḥammad Sharīf Khān, former owner
  محمد شريف خان,
• Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605, former owner
• Shīrāzī, ʻInāyat Allāh, former owner
  شيرازي، عاناية الله,
• Shīrāzī, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq, former owner
  شيرازي، عبد الحق,
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 455
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9951482483503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122528276
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5148248

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

ca. 1400

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Two treatises on alchemy.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title of each work from the introduction to that work (f. 1v, 196r).
   

Extent

234 leaves : 247 x 150 (180 x 115) mm. bound to 249 x 169 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern) + 234 + i (modern); 2 generations of later ink foliation, 1-235, with each skipping one number in the last 10 leaves, upper left and upper center recto, some foliation trimmed.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century morocco with flap and stamped medallion on covers.

Layout

Written in 25 long lines.

Decoration

Illuminated medallion and headpiece in blue and gold (f. 1r); 2 simple diagrams in red ink (f. 51r); rubrications, including marginal finding aids, in red and brown; later overlining and marginal notes in blue pencil.

Script

Written in naskh by ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī (medallion inscription, f. 1r).

Provenance

• Ownership seals and inscriptions (f. 1r): Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak al-Fayz̤ī (1584); Muḥammad Sharīf Khān (1594-1595); Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan (1598); ʻInāyat Allāh Shīrāzī (1607-1608); and ʻAbd al-Haqq al-Shīrāzī, Amanat Khan (1632-1633).
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's, 14 Oct. 2003, lot 25, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Fawa??id al-h?abi?b, f. 1r
• fol. 196v — Zinjar al-h?ukama??, f. 196v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated shamsah and headpiece, f. 1r
• fol. 51r — Diagram, f. 51r