• لوامع الافكار المضيئة في شرح مخمس الماء الورقي والارض النجمية
  • Lawāmiʻ al-afkār al-muḍīʼah fī sharḥ Mukhammas al-Māʼ al-waraqī wa-al-arḍ al-najmīyah

Collections:
  • Robert Garrett
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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Language:
  • Arabic
Creator:
  • Jaldakī, Aydamar ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1349-1361
  • جلدكي، ايدمر بن عبد الله
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 48B
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 77 leaves : paper ; 203 x 142 (130 x 85) mm. bound to 220 x 150 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b).
  • The title and the name of the author appear on fol.(i)a (later hand) and on a modern label pasted on the spine.
  • At the beginning of the text, it is said that this commentary was completed in Damascus in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 741 H. [1340] (fol. 1b).
  • 19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black and red ink. Incomplete at beginning and end. Collation notes. Light cream glazed paper with laid lines and chain lines visible. Fol. 1 is repaired with the original text copied on the repair. Fol. 18 and 18bis are blank modern folios replacing missing original leaves (see catchword on fol. 17b). After fol. 76, 1 blank leaf (European glazed paper with watermark) and 17 blank leaves (modern paper, ruled). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Incipit: ولمّا وصف شرف الصناعة قال في الرائية فاكبر به ملكا اذا قست كلما توهمت من مالك به كان اكبر ... [1ب] قال الحكيم محمد بن اميل التميمي رسالة الشمس الى الهلال ... قوله رسالة الشمس الى الهلال لفظ رسالة هو خبر
  • Explicit: نفسه ترتاح فهو ان الطيور من طبعها ان تسرح(؟) في عنصر تلك القوى
Publisher:
  • [14--?]
Subject:
  • Ibn Umayl, Muḥammad, active 10th century—Māʼ al-waraqī wa-al-arḍ al-najmīyah
  • Ibn Umayl, Muḥammad, active 10th century—Risālat al-Shams ilá al-Hilāl.
  • Alchemy—Arab countries—Early works to 1800
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Title sort:
  • Lawāmiʻ al-afkār al-muḍīʼah fī sharḥ Mukhammas al-Māʼ al-waraqī wa-al-arḍ al-najmīyah.
Alternative:
  • [Sharḥ Risālat al-Shams ilá al-Hilāl].
  • [شرح رسالة الشمس الى الهلال]
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
Binding note:
  • Brown leather over paper pasteboard, with paper pasted on upper and lower covers.
Provenance:
  • Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References:
  • Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 940
  • Sezgin, F. GAS, IV, 288
  • Ullmann, M. Die Natur- und Geheimswissenschaften (1972), 240, n. 3
Author:
  • Jaldakī, Aydamar ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1349-1361
Created:
  • 1400-01-01T00:00:00Z/1499-12-31T23:59:59Z
Date:
  • 1400-1499
Abstract:
  • Incomplete copy of a commentary on an extended version (mukhammas) of a commentary of a text on alchemy by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Tamīmī (fl. ca. 250 H. / 864).
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/p5547r43n
Location:
  • HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 48B
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 48B
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Type:
  • Early works to 1800
Range label:
  • Title-page
  • Lawāmiʻ al-afkār al-muḍīʼah fī sharḥ Mukhammas al-Māʼ al-waraqī wa-al-arḍ al-najmīyah
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