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Title

Facsimile of LJS 409, Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

4-30-2015

Files

Comments

2 brief alchemical works whose titles translate as The book of revelation and illumination and Encoded proof, written by a father for his son. The writer identifies himself only as a student of Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq. A code is used occasionally in the manuscript, and a key is included (f. 3r).

Keywords

Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Islamic magic--Early works to 1800 Codices, Drawings, Manuscripts Arabic--15th century, Manuscripts Medieval, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5784086

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs409.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 409, Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 92.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/92