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Fawāʼid al-ḥabīb. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ.
فوائد الحبيب. زنجار الحكماء.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Ibn al-Bahāʼ, Abu ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800.
- Alchemy.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Ownership seals and inscriptions (f. 1r): Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak al-Fayz̤ī (1584); Muḥammad Sharīf Khān (1594-1595); Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan (1598); ʻInāyat Allāh Shīrāzī (1607-1608); and ʻAbd al-Haqq al-Shīrāzī, Amanat Khan (1632-1633).
- Sold at auction at Christie's, 14 Oct. 2003, lot 25, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Physical Description:
- 234 leaves : paper ; 247 x 150 (180 x 115) mm bound to 249 x 169 mm
- Production:
- [Egypt?], [1400?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Two treatises on alchemy.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-196v: Fawāʼid al-ḥabīb / ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad, known as Ibn al-Bahāʼ
- 2. f.196r-235v: Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ / Aḥmad ibn Saʻd Allāh al-Hāshimī
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title of each work from the introduction to that work (f. 1v, 196r).
- Foliation: Paper, i (modern) + 234 + i (modern); 2 generations of later ink foliation, 1-235, with each skipping one number in the last 10 leaves, upper left and upper center recto, some foliation trimmed.
- Layout: Written in 25 long lines.
- Script: Written in naskh by ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī (medallion inscription, f. 1r).
- Decoration: Illuminated medallion and headpiece in blue and gold (f. 1r); 2 simple diagrams in red ink (f. 51r); rubrications, including marginal finding aids, in red and brown; later overlining and marginal notes in blue pencil.
- Binding: 19th-century morocco with flap and stamped medallion on covers.
- Origin: Probably written in Egypt, ca. 1400, based on the paper.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 110 (LJS 455).
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 455.
- Contains:
- Hāshimī, Aḥmad ibn Saʻd Allāh. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ.
- هاشمي، احمد بن سعد الله. ǂt زنجار الحكماء.
- OCLC:
- 756864181
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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