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Title

Two works on alchemy, in Arabic in Hebrew characters.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 64
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_64
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Two works on alchemy, in Arabic in Hebrew characters.

Notes

• Tidemarks at head and gutter.
   

Extent

43 folios; 43 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Al-Ma Al-Waraki and Tuhpah Al-Tadbir. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 64.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling. Larger initial words in red ink. Catchwords on every page. Folio 1r is a title page. Folio 3v-4r contain illustrations in black and red ink.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: A. C. Reichardt: purchased from him by the British Museum on 08 June 1867: inscribed, folio [44v] (fse001v).
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — אלמא אלורקי ואלארץ אלנג'מיה
• fol. 1r — al-Mā' al-waraqī wa-al-arḍ al-najmīyah
• fol. 28r — אלתדביר
• fol. 28r — Al-tadbir