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<h1><a name="top"></a>Catalogue: Alchemy</h1>
<p class="indent">The collection of alchemical tracts called <em>The 112 Books </em>was, apparently, composed at the end of the 9th century. Of the 112 treatises comprising this collection, NLM has copies of four which will be here described here together. Medieval bio-bibliographers counted as number 5 of the 112 Books a treatise by the title <em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id al-kabir</em> or <em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id al-awwal</em> -that is <em>The Large Book of the Unique </em>or <em>The First Book of the Unique</em>. Number 6 in the compilation called <em>The 112 Books</em> was a treatise titled <em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id al-th&#257;n&#299;</em> (<em>The Second Book of the Unique</em>). Both apparently concerned amalgams. A third treatise, however, titled <em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id al-th&#257;lith</em> (<em>The Third Book of the Unique</em>) was not generally counted as one of <em>The 112 Books</em>, even though the author (said to be J&#257;bir) stated in the treatise that he wrote it for a contemporary alchemist. NLM has a <a href="glossary.html#manuscript">manuscript</a> containing a treatise titled <em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id al-awwal wa-al-th&#257;n&#299; wa-al-th&#257;lith</em> (<em>The First, Second, and Third Book of the Unique</em>) that appears to be a copy of all three tracts combined (MS A 33, item 11). Copies of these treatises are very rare.</p>
<p class="indent"> Medieval bio-bibliographers counted a treatise titled<em> Kit&#257;b al-B&#257;hir</em> (<em>The Book of the Resplendent</em>) as the 37th of the books making up the collection known as <em>The 112 Books</em>. The copy at NLM (<a href="alchemy27.html">MS A 33, item 12</a>) is only one of two recorded copies.</p>
<p class="indent">The 28th treatise in the collection called <em>The 112 Books</em> was titled <em>Kit&#257;b al-Sha&#8216;ar</em> (<em>The Book of Hair</em>). NLM has an extract from this treatise (<a href="alchemy28.html">MS A 33, item 15</a>), and only one other copy is recorded as being preserved.</p>
<p class="indent">The 42th treatise in <em>The 112 Books</em> was, according to the medieval bibliographers, called <em>Kit&#257;b al-Khalis al-mubarak</em> (<em>The Book of the Blessed Pure</em>). The copy now at NLM is the only recorded copy of this treatise.</p>
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<em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id al-awwal wa-al-th&#257;n&#299; wa-al-th&#257;lith</em> <span class="ms">(MS A 33, item 11)</span></dt>
<dd><em>(The First, Second, and Third Book of the Unique)</em></dd>
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<dd>by <a href="bioJ.html#jabir">J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n</a> (8th-9th century)</dd>
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<p class="indent">In the collection of alchemical tracts called <em>The 112 Books</em> composed at the end if the 9th century, medieval bio-bibliographers counted as number 5 a treatise by the title <em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id al-kabir</em> or <em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id al-awwal</em>, that is <em>The Large Book of the Unique</em> or <em>The First Book of the Unique</em>. Number 6 in the compilation called <em>The 112 Books</em> was a treatise titled <em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id al-th&#257;n&#299;</em> (<em>The Second Book of the Unique</em>). Both apparently concerned amalgams. A third treatise, however, titled <em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id wa-al-th&#257;lith</em> (<em>The Third Book of the Unique</em>) was not generally counted as one of <em>The 112 Books</em>, even though the author (= J&#257;bir) states in the treatise that he wrote it for a contemporary alchemist.</p>
<p class="indent"> The treatise at NLM is titled <em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id al-awwal wa-al-th&#257;n&#299; wa-al-th&#257;lith</em> (<em>The First, Second, and Third Book of the Unique</em>) and appears to be a copy of all three tracts combined. Copies of these treatises are very rare.</p>
<p class="indent"> For copies of <em>The First Book of the Unique</em> and <em>The Second Book of the Unique</em>, see <a href="abbreviation.html#kraus">Kraus, Jabir</a>, p. 16 nos. 11 and 12; <a href="abbreviation.html#sezginIV">Sezgin, GAS IV</a>, p. 233 nos. 7 and 8.</p>
<p class="indent"><em>The Third Book of the Unique</em> (<em>Kitab al-Wahid al-thalith</em>) appears to be preserved in only one other recorded (incomplete) copy: Cairo, Dar al-Kutub,<em> MS tabi'iyat</em> 737, folios 93b-94b. See Sezgin, GAS IV, p. 261 no. 16.</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Illustrations</span></h2>
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<p class="indent">The volume is bound in an 18th or 19th -century Persian/Turkish <a href="glossary.html#bindings">binding</a> of brown leather over <a href="glossary.html#pasteboards">pasteboards</a> with an <a href="glossary.html#envelope">envelope flap</a>. Both covers have a blind-stamped large scalloped <a href="glossary.html#mandorla">mandorla</a> panel stamp whose decoration on the inner field has a central flower in full bloom and interweaving vines with full blown and smaller flowers and leaves. There are two small pendants blind-stamped with a single flower-bud. The covers also have <a href="glossary.html#blind">blind-tooled</a> <a href="glossary.html#frames">frames</a> formed of simple <a href="glossary.html#fillet">fillets</a> either side of a narrow <a href="glossary.html#guilloche">guilloche</a> roll.</p>
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<h2><span class="h2blue">Physical Description</span></h2>
<p class="indent">Arabic. 12 <a href="glossary.html#leaves">leaves</a> (fols. 174a-185a, line 6). <a href="glossary.html#dimensions">Dimensions</a> 21 x 14.8 (text area 15.3 x 7.4) cm; 12 lines per page. The title and author are given on fol. 174a, line 2.</p>
<p class="indent">The copy is undated and unsigned. The appearance of the paper, ink, and script a date of the 17th or 18th century.</p>
<p class="indent">All the items in the volume were copied by the same unnamed person. The volume was given the title <em>Majmu&#8216; naf&#299;s al-kimiya&#8217;</em> (<em>A Valuable Collection on Alchemy</em>) on fol. 1b, which is a later title page and table of contents. A modern label on the front paste-down reads: </p>
<p class="indent"><em>Majmu&#8216;ah: Rasa&#8217;il li-J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n</em> (<em>Collection: Treatises by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n</em>). </p>
<p class="indent">The text is written in a large <a href="glossary.html#naskh">naskh</a> tending to <a href="glossary.html#taliq">ta&#8216;liq</a> script using black ink with
headings in a tomato-red. The text area is <a href="glossary.html#frame">frame-ruled</a>. There are <a href="glossary.html#catchword">catchwords</a>. </p>
<p class="indent">There are <a href="glossary.html#marginalia">marginalia</a> in several hands throughout the volume. Some indicate corrections, others (in a very large script) repeat section headings, and some provide brief
commentaries. Most of the <a href="glossary.html#folio">folios</a> have been numbered in <a href="glossary.html#arabic">Arabic numerals</a> on the <a href="glossary.html#verso">verso</a>; the
volume has been recently <a href="glossary.html#refoliated">refoliated</a> in <a href="glossary.html#western">Western numerals</a>. </p>
<p class="indent">Fols. 2-188 are composed of a thin, ivory paper with vertical <a href="glossary.html#laid">laid lines</a> and single <a href="glossary.html#chain">chain lines</a> (no <a href="glossary.html#watermarks">watermarks</a> observed). Fols. 189-252 are composed of a slightly thicker and stiffer light-beige paper that also has vertical laid lines with single chain lines spaced further apart than in the paper of the first group; there are also evident watermarks. The paper is damp-stained and darker near the edges, with considerable water-damage at the top inner corner. It is also slightly soiled through thumbing. Fol. 1 is a <a href="glossary.html#watermarked">watermarked</a> paper slightly different from the rest of the volume. </p>
<p class="indent">The volume consists of 252 leaves. Fol. 1a is blank; the folio is a later piece of paper on which someone has written a table of contents for the volume on the verso. Fols. 10b, 27a, 48a, and 89b are completely blank. Fol. 121a is blank except for a short Persian later annotation. Fol. 36b was blank, but a Persian note has since been added to it, and fol. 58a was blank until a short note in red ink was added that repeats the title of the
previous item. Carefully written Persian notes have been written at the bottom of fols. 47a and 47b. </p>
<p class="indent">Fols. 2a-10a (item 1) contain <em>Kit&#257;b al-Mal&#257;ghim al-awwal</em> by <a href="bioJ.html#jabir">J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n</a> (<a href="alchemy19.html">MS A 33, item 1</a>); fols. 11a-26b (item 2) <em>Kit&#257;b al-Mal&#257;ghim al-th&#257;n&#299;</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy13.html">MS A 33, item 2</a>); fols. 27b-36a (item 3) <em>Kit&#257;b al-Mal&#257;ghim al-th&#257;lith</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy15.html">MS A 33, item 3</a>); fols. 37a-47a (item 4) <em>Tafs&#299;r al-Mal&#257;ghim</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy17.html">MS A 33, item 4</a>); fols. 48b-57b (item 5) <em>Kit&#257;b al-al-Tad&#257;b&#299;r</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy20.html">MS A 33, item 5</a>); fols. 58b-89a (item 6) <em>Kit&#257;b al-U<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7779;</font>&#363;l</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy30.html">MS A 33, item 6</a>); fols. 90a-120b (item 7) <em>Kit&#257;b al-Sirr al-s&#257;rr wa-sirr al-asr&#257;r</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy37.html">MS A 33, item 7</a>); fols. 121b-147a (item 8) <em>al-Muntakhab min Kit&#257;b al-Itti<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>&#257;d</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy40.html">MS A 33, item 8</a>); fols. 147a-161b (item 9) <em>Kit&#257;b al-Sirr al-asr&#257;r</em> by <a href="bioR.html#razi">al-R&#257;z&#299;</a> (<a href="alchemy45.html">MS A 33, item 9</a>); fols. 161b-173b (item 10) <em>Kit&#257;b al-Sirr al-Makn&#363;n</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy32.html">MS A 33, item 10</a>); fols. 174a-185a (item 11) <em>Kit&#257;b al-W&#257;<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>id al-awwal wa-al-th&#257;n&#299; wa-al-th&#257;lith</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n here catalogued; fols. 185a-211b (item 12) <em>Kit&#257;b al-B&#257;hir</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy27.html">MS A 33, item 12</a>); fols. 212a-217b (item 13) <em>Kit&#257;b al-Kham&#257;'ir al-th&#257;lith</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy23.html">MS A 33, item 13</a>); fols. 217b-229a (item 14) <em>Kit&#257;b Tafs&#299;r al-kham&#257;'ir al-th&#257;lith</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy24.html">MS A 33, item 14</a>); fols. 229b-230b (item 15) <em>Kitab al-Sha&#8216;ar [quotations from]</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy28.html">MS A 33, item 15</a>); fols. 230b-244b (item 16) <em>Kitab al-Khama'ir</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy22.html">MS A 33, item 16</a>); and fols. 244b-252b (item 17) <em>al-Khalis al-mubarak</em> by J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy29.html">MS A 33, item 17</a>).</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Binding</span></h2>
<p class="indent">The volume is bound in an 18th or 19th century Persian/Turkish binding of brown leather over pasteboards with an envelope flap. Both covers have a blind-stamped large scalloped mandorla panel stamp whose decoration on the inner field has a central flower in full bloom and interweaving vines with full blown and smaller flowers and leaves. There are two small pendants blind-stamped with a single flower-bud. The covers also have blind-tooled frames formed of simple fillets either side of a narrow guilloche roll. The envelope flap has a similar frame, with the small scalloped panel stamp decorated with a small flower in full bloom surrounded by a scalloped design. The spine, <a href="glossary.html#fore">fore-edge flap</a>, and edges are recently repaired in a darker brown leather. The envelope flap has a yellow-green paper lining. There are modern <a href="glossary.html#pastedowns">pastedowns</a> and <a href="glossary.html#endpapers">endpapers</a> and a recent brown cloth fore-edge flap lining. </p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Provenance</span></h2>
<p class="indent"> The volume was purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A. S. Yahuda (ELS No. 1683). </p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">References</span></h2>
<p class="indent"><a href="abbreviation.html#schullian">Schullian/Sommer</a>, <em>Cat. of incun. &amp; MSS.</em>, entry A 33, p. 308. </p>
<p class="psource">NLM Microfilm Reel: FILM 48-118 no. 6.</p>
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