Manuscript on paper of an untitled Kunstbuechlein containing hundreds of recipes for a variety of alchemical processes, chiefly metallurgical.
Description:
Foliation in first section almost entirely illegible, Foliation of volume is difficult due to both mutilated and missing leaves., On first flyleaf recto: an elaborate pen-drawing of a double coat of arms, probably of a husband and wife of minor German noble families, which may be seen in the photographic reproduction. Above the left coat are the letters ""I.W.G.W."" and above the right, ""I.W.D.G.,"" while the date ""1.5.6.2."" is written below and between the letters., On the first end flyleaf recto (numbered f. 155) is a table of alchemical symbols possibly by the original copyist., Paper codex., and Standing in a slight landscape with ruined buildings below and between the two coats of arms is a female figure seen in left profile wearing a long dress; in her lowered right hand she holds a banner which bears an inscription: ""Mich beisst der Floch"" [sic], apparently for ""Floh"", i.e., ""The flea bites me""; her left hand has raised the skirt of her dress and is concealed beneath it.
Followed by short chapters on the description and preparation of medicines, pastes and drinks. and On the body and sickness. Ends abruptly in Maqālah 7, faṣl 43 (of 60).
Description:
According to most sources, Hippocrates did not write a work with this title; Dioscurides did, but the text differs from the present one., May be later than sixteenth century., Purchased from Hassan Sami in 1991 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Water-stained and badly worm-eaten, affecting text., and With: 1 other title.
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13.
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
13
Abstract:
Commentary on the author's own al-Risālah al-zawrāʾ (a Sufi tract). and Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525).
Description:
Hasty nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 14 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., Sparse marginalia., and Title supplied by a modern hand in laid-in slip.
Subject (Name):
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13. Risālah al-zawrāʾ. and Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad,--1426 or 7-1512 or 13.--Risālah al-zawrāʾ.
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13.
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
5
Abstract:
Copied in Constantinople about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525)., Essay in praise of the reed pen., and Preceded by 1 page of notes.
Alternative Title:
Risālat al-yarāʻah.
Description:
Alternate title: Risālat al-yarāʻah., Hasty nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 13 of 15 titles bound together., and Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund.
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, d. 1355?
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
3
Abstract:
Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525). and Tract on the expression of ideas.
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 9 of 15 titles bound together., and Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund.
Commentary on al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah (on the expression of ideas) of ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī. and Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525).
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 8 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., and The ḥamdalah is the same as in Berlin catalog 5311 (7) (variant form of al-Qūshjī's commentary) but the incipit is different.
Subject (Name):
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, d. 1355? Risālah al-waḍʻīyah. and Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad,--d. 1355?--Risālah al-waḍʻīyah.