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Penn Library's LJS 441 - Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm... (Video Orientation)

Authors

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Date of this Version

12-9-2022

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Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 441, 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.

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.

LJS 441 on Franklin, with link to digital copy: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9950507863503681

LJS 441 on Internet Archive, with link to PDF: https://archive.org/details/ljs441

Link to eBook

https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/66/

Link to OPENN

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

Keywords

Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Alchemy -- Early works to 1800, Alchemy, Manuscripts Arabic, Manuscripts 16th century, Manuscripts Renaissance, Codices (bound manuscripts), Diagrams, Drawings (visual works), Treatises

Disciplines

Arabic Studies | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Renaissance Studies

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Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2022, December 09). Penn Library's LJS 441 - Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm... (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/184