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'Izz-ad-Din Abi al-Hasan 'Ali bin al-Amir al-Jaldaki al-Iskandari (d. 1342), al-Taqrib fi asrar al tarkib, vol. IV only, a treatise on alchemy
North Africa, 19th Century

23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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'Izz-ad-Din Abi al-Hasan 'Ali bin al-Amir al-Jaldaki al-Iskandari (d. 1342), al-Taqrib fi asrar al tarkib, vol. IV only, a treatise on alchemy
North Africa, 19th Century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 246 leaves, 27 lines to the page written in maghribi script in black ink, significant words and sentences picked out in red, explanatory notes in outer margins, catchwords, a section illustrated with diagrams inserted into manuscript at a later date, edges frayed, dampstaining mostly restricted to outer margins, red morocco with stamped central medallions decorated with floral motifs, rebacked, with flap
235 x 165 mm.

Footnotes

There are eight treatises on alchemy by al-Jildaki in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, but the above mentioned title is not included amongst them. See U. Lyons, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, vol. VIII, Indexes, Dublin 1966, p. 34. See also Brockelmann, GAL, G II, 139; S II, 172.

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