Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm al-miftāḥ fī al-ḥikmah al-Ilāhīyah wa-al-ṣināʻah al-falsafīyah wa al-natījah al-ʻalīyah; كتاب المصباح ونزهة الارواح في علم المفتاح في الحكمة الالاهية والصناعة الفلسفية و النتيجة العلية

Alternate Title:

Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm al-miftāḥ fī al-ḥikmah al-Ilāhīyah wa-al-ṣināʻah al-falsafīyah wa al-natījah al-ʻalīyah

Contributor:

Shams al-Dīn ibn ʻAbbās, active 1562 (scribe)

Name:

Jaldakī, Aydamar ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1349-1361

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1562

Description:

Two works on alchemy copied together in different hands. The first, a 14th-century treatise based on the work of the 8th-century alchemist and chemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, copied in A.H. 970 (1562); the second, a pseudo-Platonic work on alchemy with commentary (tafsīr) attributed to Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. Some marginal notes. The first work may be missing leaves after folio 51.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Bektāsh al-Tūqātī and then held in the library of Sultan Selim II (inscription, f. 93r).; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), Nov. 2002.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.; Formerly owned by Bektāsh al-Tūqātī and then held in the library of Sultan Selim II (inscription, transcribed by Nicholas Harris, f. 93r).; Tūqātī, ʻUbayd Allāh Bektāsh, former owner.; Selim II, Sultan of the Turks, 1524-1574, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs441.html; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Jābir ibn Ḥayyān; Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Alchemy

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 16th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Codices (bound manuscripts); Diagrams; Drawings (visual works); Treatises; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

128 leaves : paper, illustrations; 212 x 155 (165-170 x 110-115) mm bound to 213 x 160 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title of first work from title page (f. 1r); title of second work from introduction (f. 93v).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-92v: Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm al-miftāḥ fī al-ḥikmah al-Ilāhīyah wa-al-ṣināʻah al-falsafiyyah wa al-natījah al-ʻalīyah / ʻIzz al-Dīn Aydamar ibn ʻAlī ibn Aydamar al-Jaldakī -- 2. f. 93r-128v: Kitāb Muṣaḥḥaḥāt Aflāṭūn; Foliation: Paper, 128; [1-128], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left recto.; Layout: Written in 21 (f. 1-92) and 27 (f. 93-128) long lines.; Script: Written in a naskh in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: 3 drawings of plants in red ink (f. 91r-91v), with green coloring added to one of them; penwork in black and red ink around colophon of first work (f. 92v); 2 circular diagrams inside upper cover; rubrications in red.; Binding: Later morocco, bottom cover blind-stamped with a central mandorla, top cover laid with paper (cream over blue) decorated with a cut-out pattern.; Origin: Copy of first work completed at the end of Muḥarram in Aleppo (Syria) in A.H. 970 by al-Ḥājj Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbbās (f. 92v); second work is undated and unsigned.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 441

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)