Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 441: 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. University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 441: 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. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title of first work from title page (f. 1r); title of second work from introduction (f. 93v). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 441 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 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. Arabic 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 Jaldakī, Aydamar ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1349-1361 جلدكي، ايدمر بن عبد الله، scribe Shams al-Dīn ibn ʻAbbās, active 1562 شمس الدين بن عباس، former owner Tūqātī, ʻUbayd Allāh Bektāsh توقاتي، عبيد الله بكتاش، former owner Selim II, Sultan of the Turks, 1524-1574

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 128 leaves : 212 x 155 (165-170 x 110-115) mm. bound to 213 x 160 mm Paper, 128; [1-128], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left recto. Written in 21 (f. 1-92) and 27 (f. 93-128) long lines. Written in a naskh in black ink; pointed. 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. Diagram, Inside front cover Table, f. 1r Drawing, f. 91r Drawing, f. 91v Decorated colophon, f. 92v

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

Copy of first work completed at the end of Muḥarram in Aleppo (Syria) in A.H. 970 by al-Ḥājj Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbbās (f. 92v); second work is undated and unsigned.

A.H. 970 (1562) Aleppo 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). Alchemy--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic Manuscripts, 16th century Manuscripts, Renaissance Codices (bound manuscripts) Diagrams Drawings Treatises