Descriptive Information

Title

علم المكتسب في زراعة الذهب ... [الخ.]

Transliterated Title

ʻIlm al-muktasab fī zirāʻat al-dhahab ... [etc.]

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1697Y

Identifier

ark:/88435/6h440z897

Publisher

[1500-1699]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1500-1699

Format

Manuscript

Extent

75 leaves : paper ; 215 x 157 (148-180 x 92-138) mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 5105, 5107, 5115, 5117.

Brockelmann, GAL, I, 654 (3: no. 1); S I, 909; S II, 1034 (11: no. 1).

Ullmann, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam, p. 244.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. fol. 1b-36a: ʻIlm al-muktasab fī zirāʻat al-dhahab.

2. fol. 36b-40b: Tadbīr al-aʻẓam.

3. fol. 42a-74a: Aqālīm al-sabʻah fī al-ʻilm al-marsūm [sic] bi-al-ṣanʻah. The title as quoted appears in the preface (fol. 46a, line 11); there is another title by a different hand on fol. 41a: Risālat al-samak al-baḥrī wa-al-ḥayawān al-barrī wa-huwa al-kitāb al-musammá bi-al-Aqālīm al-sabʻah fī al-ʻilm al-marsūm [!] bi-al-ṣanʻah.

4. fol. 74b-75a: Urjūzah fī kīmīyāʼ.

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

Layout: 19-26 lines per page.

Incipit: [العلم المكتسب] وبعد فانى صنفت هذا الکتاب ذاکرا فيه علم صناعة الکيما [کذا ... -- [التدبير الاعظم] أما بعد حمد الله ... فهذه اوراق تشتمل على التدبير الاعظم بلا رمز ولا تخليط کلام زائد استخرجها الشيخ عبدالرحمن الصوفى من کتب کثيرة -- [الاقاليم السبعة] قال ... الحمد لله المبدع الاول ... اعلم رحمك الله ان التصانيف فى علم الصنعة کثيرة -- [ارجوزة] الحمد لله القديم الاحد * الفرد ذو [کذا] الغزة فرد صمد

Discovery Information

Subject

Alchemy—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

82

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

Holding location

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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d67a200e-60b3-4cb3-abf4-372366322f78/manifest

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