Penn Library's LJS 441 - Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm... (Video Orientation)
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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): Videos
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Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800
Alchemy
Manuscripts Arabic
Manuscripts 16th century
Manuscripts Renaissance
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Arabic Studies
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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Alchemy -- Early works to 1800
Alchemy
Manuscripts Arabic
Manuscripts 16th century
Manuscripts Renaissance
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams
Drawings (visual works)
Treatises
Arabic Studies
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Renaissance Studies
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2022-12-09
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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