Details

Subject(s)

• Alchemy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Medicine—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Medicine, Arab [Browse]

Related name

• جابر بن حيان [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Commonplace books—Islamic countries—18th century [Browse]

Contains

• Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225. Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif. Selections. [Browse]
• بوني، احمد بن علي، d. 1225. شمس المعارف ولطائف العوارف. [Browse]
• Iznīqī, ʻAlī, active 15th century. Jawāhir al-asrār. Selections. [Browse]
• ازنيقي، علي، 15th cent. جواهر الاسرار. [Browse]
• Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. Selections. [Browse]
• Jaldakī, Aydamar ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1349-1361. Asnām. Ottoman Turkish. [Browse]
• جلدكي، ايدمر بن عبد الله، fl. 1349-1361. اصنام. [Browse]
• Jaldakī, Aydamar ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1349-1361. Burhān fī asrār ʻilm al-mīzān. Munyat al-nufūs fī iẓhār al-zīnah li-kull ʻarūs. [Browse]
• جلدكي، ايدمر بن عبد الله، active 1349-1361. برهان في اسرار علم الميزان. منية النفوس في اظهار الزينة لكل عروس. [Browse]
• Ṭabarī, ʻAlī ibn Sahl Rabbān, 9th cent. Firdaws al-ḥikmah. Selections. [Browse]
• طبري، علي بن سهل ربان، 9th cent. فردوس الحكمة. [Browse]

Summary note

A commonplace book on alchemy and medicine.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Physical description: Varying lines per page; mostly written in small, casual naskh in black with additions by other hands, on glazed, laid European paper. Fol. 2-5 dyed yellow. Rubrication in red and orange; catchwords in longer texts. A few marginal notes; subject matter of recipes frequently noted in the outer margins. Schematic drawing on fol. 110b and chart on fol. 111a. Numerous blank pages throughout ms. Foliated 2-117 (15-16, 33, 99 skipped) in Arabic script beginning on fol. 5a. Lacuna after fol. 63. A few paper repairs and loose leaves. Some damp staining and smudging, particularly toward end of ms.

Binding note

Full brown leather with pasted central mandorla and pendants. Spine repaired. White pastedowns and blue flyleaves.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish and Arabic.

Contents

• fol. 1a-4a: Fihrist
• fol. 6a: ʻAmal kuḥl al-ḥujr ... Iʻmāl al-kaḥīl al-gharībah [al-]ʻajībah
• fol. 6b: Ṣifat istikhrāj rūḥ al-ithmid ... Sıfat-ı ma ir-reis ... Amel-i tenkar
• fol. 7a: Tabayyuḍāt ... Min Kitāb al-ʻAyn / Jābir
• fol. 8b: Ṭarīqat al-qamarīyah ... Amel-i kameriye ... Tarik-i dikhlīyah-yi [?] şemsiye ... Ḥabb qābiḍ
• fol. 9a: Ṣifat al-ḥamrah wa-ḥayy al-mujarrabāt ... Mabqalah [?] latīfah ʻamal al-bayāḍ fī Kitāb Jawāhir al-asrār / li-Muʼallif al-Jadīd
• fol. 9b: Fī al-taṣʻīd
• fol. 10a: Ber-i fazıl ve kamil ... Sıfat-ı amel-i iklil ... Akd-ı ranīq-i [?] ahmer ... Ukabi har ve sengden
• fol. 10b-12a: Nuqila min Risālat Muḥammad Qudsī wa-min Firdaws al-ḥikmah / [ʻAlī ibn Sahl Rabban al-Ṭabarī].
• fol. 12b: Ṣifat nuqṭat al-ḥāriqah lil-shams
• fol. 13a: Fi beyan-ı terkib-i mürekkep
• fol. 14b: Ṣifat dahnat al-ʻaqrab ... Ṣifah
• fol. 15a: Şemsiyedir
• fol. 15b: Risālat Ṭarīq al-ḥajar
• fol. 16b: [Unidentified extract]
• fol. 17b: Terkib-i macun mübeyyen
• fol. 18b: al-Akdiyat
• fol. 19a: Nuktah fī ʻalam aḥmar ... Nuktah fī al-zarnīkh ... Milḥat al-nūshādir ... Mīzān al-qalaʻī [?]
• fol. 20b: Şemsiye-yi taṣaffurah
• fol. 21a: Ruh-ı tunya
• fol. 22a: ʻAmal shamsīyah
• fol. 22b: Fī taklīsāt
• fol. 23a: Shamsīyah ... Taswīd al-qamar ... ʻAqd aḥmar ... Tin-i hikmet
• fol. 23b: Macun-ı Sultan Mahmud Han.
• fol. 25a: Humma-yı muḥarriqah
• fol. 25b: İmal-ı ruh
• fol. 26a: Amel-i şemsiye ... Amel-i kameriye
• fol. 26b: Amel üz-zencerf ... Amel-i tahmir ıl-abd
• fol. 27a: Ṣifat idhā suḥiqa al-ʻaqrab ... Ṣifat tabayyuḍ al-ʻaqrab ... Kaǧıta-yı ahar
• fol. 27b: Şemsiye
• fol. 28a: Amel-i kameriye ... Taḥmīr al-ajsād ... Amel-i iksir-i hacer-i müerrah
• fol. 28b-29b: al-Nuktah al-tāsiʻah min al-Ḥikmah al-ʻalīyah
• fol. 30a: Ṣifat al-waraq al-ḥukamāʼ
• fol. 30b-33b: Munyat al-nufūs fī iẓhār al-zīnah li-kull ʻarūs (al-Maqālah al-sādisah min al-juzʼ al-rābiʻ min Kitāb al-Burhān fī asrār ʻilm al-mīzān) / [Aydamur ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Jaldakī ]
• fol. 33b: Tazwīj al-dhakar bi-al-unthá / Jābir.
• fol. 34a: Tabayyuḍ zahrah
• fol. 34b-36a: [Yakılar]
• fol. 36b-37a: Tiryak
• fol. 37a-42b: [Macunlar]
• fol. 43a-44a: [Laʻūqlar]
• fol. 44a-53b: [Şarablar]
• fol. 54b: Macun-i dec
• fol. 55b: Sıfat-ı rehc tedbir ... Tedbir ül-üsrüb ... Amel-i dühn-i kebir
• fol. 56a: Sıfat-ı taḍmīd ıl-abd
• fol. 57b: Faṣl fī al-ḥall ... Māʼ kibrīt ḥadīd
• fol. 58a: [Symbols for various substances]
• fol. 58b: Fasl-ı hamirler ve murabbalar ve gülbesheker
• fol. 59a-60a: Akreb-i yaǧı ... Demir-i buzan ... Tizab-ı suyi
• fol. 60b-63b: [Alchemical extract in Arabic on gold, silver, fire, and plants]
• fol. 64a: [Laʻūqlar]
• fol. 64b-70a: [Dühnler ve haplar]
• fol. 70b-71b: Fasl-ı sular.
• fol. 71b-73b: [Kurslar]
• fol. 73b-74b: [Merhemler, hablar, ve müshiller]
• fol. 75a: Amber-i ameli
• fol. 75b-83a: [Various recipes in Turkish]
• fol. 83b-87b: [Merhemler]
• fol. 87b-88a: Fasl-ı dühnler
• fol. 89a-92a: [Various recipes in Turkish]
• fol. 92b: Ṣifat ajzāʼī ḥajar al-karīm
• fol. 93a: [Unidentified recipe in Arabic]
• fol. 93b-96a: [Dühnler]
• fol. 96b-97a: Tabayi-yi nebatat ve ecza
• fol. 97b: [Şaflar]
• fol. 98a: Hab ciger tazelemek
• fol. 99a: Iʻmāl al-gharībah ... ʻAmal shamsīyah
• fol. 99b-101a: [Various recipes in Turkish]
• fol. 101b-102b: Ithbāt al-zunjufr
• fol. 103a: Hal-ı ahad ... [Various recipes in Turkish]
• fol. 104b: Fī al-tashmīʻ.
• fol. 105a: ʻAqd al-ṭayyār
• fol. 105b: Şemsiye
• fol. 106a: Tawzīn al-qamar
• fol. 106b: Tanqīr-i nühas
• fol. 107a: Tanqiyat al-raṣāṣīn
• fol. 108b: Ṣifat idhābat al-marīkh ... Demir-i buzan
• fol. 109a: [Various recipes in Turkish]
• fol. 110b: Mawāzīn Aflāṭūn Ḥakīm
• fol. 111a: [Chart connecting the numerical values of the letters of the alphabet with the seven planets]
• fol. 111b-113a: Haza Kitab-ı Sanem-i seb'a li-Hakim Balinas / [Aydamur ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Jaldakī]
• fol. 114b-115a: Hādhihi Risālat Shams al-maʻārif fī ʻilm al-ḥajar al-muntakhab min kitāb / Aḥmad Būnī
• fol. 115b-117b: [Notes and recipes in Turkish].

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Provenance

Owner's stamp on fol. 1a.

Source acquisition

Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2011/09/07 (2012-16).

OCLC

753977252

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