- Al-Taqrīb fī asrār al-tarkīb. 17th century. from [Seven texts on alchemy].
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- This alchemical miscellany includes three treatises by the great 14th-century alchemist, al-Jildakī. It also includes three attributed to Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Geber in Latin), an eighth-century sage whose name was later appended to a large corpus of alchemical writings. Alchemy continued to flourish in Islamicate territories long after the translation movement. However, the 12th-century translation of Arabic alchemical treatises into Latin helped to establish Muslim philosophers like Jabir and Ibn Sina (Avicenna) as authorities in the Christian tradition.
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- Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Language:
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- Arabic
- Text language:
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- Arabic.
- Publisher:
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- [16--?]
- Date:
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- 1600-1699
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- 191 leaves : paper ; 251 x 146 mm. bound to 257 x 156 mm.
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- Ms. codex.
- Contents:
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- 1. fol. 5b-14b: Lawḥ al-dhahab.
- 2. fol. 14b-112b: al-Taqrīb fī asrār al-tarkīb.
- 3. fol. 112b-116b: Kitāb al-Arkān al-arbaʻah fī al-ḥajar.
- 4. fol. 117a-184a: al-Miṣbāḥ fī asrār ʻilm al-miftāḥ.
- 5. fol. 184a-187b: Ghāyat al-surūr fī sharḥ al-Shudhūr.
- 6. fol. 187b-189a: Bāb fī ʻamal al-shaʻr.
- 7. fol. 189a-190b: Risālah fī tadbīr al-ḥajar al-karīm.
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- ark:/88435/pv63g622s