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Title

Facsimile of LJS 441, Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm al-miftāḥ fī al-ḥikmah al-Ilāhīyah wa-al-ṣināʻah al-falsafīyah wa al-nātijah al-ʻalīyah ... etc.

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

5-1-2015

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Comments

14th-century treatise on alchemy based on the work of the 8th-century alchemist and chemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, copied in A.H. 970 (1562), followed by a pseudo-Platonic work on alchemy with commentary (tafsīr) attributed to Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. Some marginal notes.

Keywords

Alchemy--Early works to 1800 Codices, Diagrams, Drawings, Treatises, Manuscripts Arabic--16th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5050786

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs441.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 441, Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm al-miftāḥ fī al-ḥikmah al-Ilāhīyah wa-al-ṣināʻah al-falsafīyah wa al-nātijah al-ʻalīyah ... etc." (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 66.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/66