• Al-Taqrīb fī asrār al-tarkīb. 17th century. from [Seven texts on alchemy].

Curatorial Notes:

• 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.

Credit Line:

• Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Language:

• Arabic

Text language:

• Arabic.

Publisher:

• [16--?]

Date:

• 1600-1699

Extent:

• 191 leaves : paper ; 251 x 146 mm. bound to 257 x 156 mm.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9962173623506421

Description:

• Ms. codex.

Contents:

• 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.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/pv63g622s