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Title

Facsimile of LJS 403, Alchemical compendium

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

1-7-2015

Files

Comments

Working notes of an alchemist, who signs himself as the compiler and composer of the manuscript (f. 127v). Lacking at least one leaf at the beginning, if not more (early pagination begins at 2, f. 1r), with repairs on extant first and last leaves. Includes a commentary on an unknown text and references to the concept of balance found in the work of 8th-century alchemist Jābir ibn HÌ£ayyān and to Pythagoras. Many marginal notes.

Keywords

Alchemy--Early works to 1800 Codices, Anthologies, Commentaries, Manuscripts Arabic--15th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5081494

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs403.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 403, Alchemical compendium" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 97.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/97