Details

Subjects:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

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.

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.

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.

Contributor:

Anṣārī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, scribe.
Fayz̤ī, Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak, 1547 or 1548-1595, former owner.
Khān, Sharīf, 1725?-1805 or 1806, former owner.
Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605, former owner.
Shīrāzī, ʻInāyat Allāh, former owner.
Shīrāzī, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
هاشمي، احمد بن سعد الله. ǂt زنجار الحكماء.
انصاري، علي بن عبد الله، ǂe scribe.
فيضى، ابو الفيض بن مبارک، 1547 يا 1548-1595، former owner.
محمد شريف خان, 1725?-1805 or 1806, former owner.
شيرازي، عاناية الله, former owner.
شيرازي، عبد الحق, former owner.

Contains:

Hāshimī, Aḥmad ibn Saʻd Allāh. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ.
هاشمي، احمد بن سعد الله. ǂt زنجار الحكماء.

OCLC:

756864181

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page