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Subject(s)

• Ibn Umayl, Muḥammad active 10th century—Māʼ al-waraqī wa-al-arḍ al-najmīyah [Browse]
• Ibn Umayl, Muḥammad active 10th century—Risālat al-Shams ilá al-Hilāl [Browse]
• Alchemy—Arab countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

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).

Notes

• 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

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

Other title(s)

• [Sharḥ Risālat al-Shams ilá al-Hilāl].
• [شرح رسالة الشمس الى الهلال]

OCLC

69666201

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