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<h1><a name="top"></a>Catalogue: Alchemy</h1>
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<em>Kitā Jannāt al-khuld</em> <span class="ms"> (MS A 70, item 2)</span></dt>
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<dd>(<em>The Garden of Delights</em>)</dd>
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<dd><strong>كتاب جنات الخلد</strong></dd>
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<dd>attributed to <a href="bioJ.html#jabir">Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān</a> (8<sup>th</sup>-9<sup>th</sup> century)</dd>
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<p class="indent">A large number of miscellaneous writings have been attributed to Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān that are not listed as part of one of the major collective works that circulated under his name. Amongst such writings, NLM has three treatises that are attested to being attributed to Jābir in other sources, as well as several that are stated to be by Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān in the NLM <a href="glossary.html#manuscript">manuscript</a> copy but are not recorded in the published bibliographic literature on Jābir.</p>
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<p class="indent"> Amongst those treatises listed by medieval bibliographers as being attributed to Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān is one titled <em>Kitā Jannāt al-khuld</em> (<em>The Garden of Delights</em>), of which NLM has a copy. </p>
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<p class="indent"> A number of other copies of this treatise are preserved, as well as some commentaries on it. See <a href="abbreviation.html#sezginIV">Sezgin, GAS IV</a>, p. 259 no. 2 and <a href="abbreviation.html#kraus">Kraus, Jabir</a>, p. 119 no. 967. </p>
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<p class="indent"><em>Kitā Jannāt al-khuld</em> <span class="ms">(MS A 70, item 2)</span> </p>
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<h2><span class="h2blue">Physical Description</span></h2>
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<p class="indent">The copy is undated and unsigned. The appearance of the paper, ink, and script suggests a date of the 17th or 18th century. </p>
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<p class="indent">There are copious <a href="glossary.html#marginalia">marginalia</a> throughout in several hands, with some interlinear notes. A later hand has written the titles of various individual items in the volume in the upper left corners of the <a href="glossary.html#recto">recto</a> of some <a href="glossary.html#folio">folios</a>. One person adding marginalia to the volume frequently cites the alchemical authority <a href="bioJ.html#jaldaki">al-Jaldakī</a>. </p>
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<p class="indent">The volume consists of 67 leaves and one loose <a href="glossary.html#leaf">leaf</a>. Fol. 1a is blank except for some later Turkish poetry and an owner's stamp. The loose leaf is smaller (ca. 18 x 11 cm) and of different paper from the rest of the volume; on it are miscellaneous and very casually written notes. Fols. 1b-12a (item 1) contain <em>Kitāb al-Sirr al-sārr wa-sirr al-asrār</em> by Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (<a href="alchemy36.html">MS A 70, item 1</a>); fols. 12a-13b (item 2) <em>Kitāb Jannāt al-khuld</em> here catalogued; fols. fols. 13b-20b (item 3) <em>Kitāb al-Ra<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>mah al-kabīr</em> by Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (<a href="alchemy11.html">MS A 70, item 3</a>); fols. 20b-22a (item 4) <em>Kitāb al-I<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>qāq min sab‘īn</em> [extracts] by <a href="bioR.html#razi">al-Rāzī</a> (<a href="alchemy46.html">MS A 70, item 4</a>); fols. 22a-24a (item 5) an untitled treatise attributed to <a href="bioH.html#hermes">Hirmīs</a> [Hermes Trismegistus] (<a href="alchemy4.html">MS A 70, item 5</a>); fols. 24a-27b (item 6) <em>Kitāb al-Tadābīr</em> by al-Rāzī (<a href="alchemy47.html">MS A 70, item 6</a>); fols. 28a-29a (item 7) <em>Kitāb al-Rāhib</em> by Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (<a href="alchemy12.html">MS A 70, item 7</a>); fols 29a-30b (item 8) <em>Kitāb al-Āthar al-‘ulwīyah</em> by <a href="bioA.html#aristotle">Aristotle</a> (<a href="alchemy2.html">MS A 70, item 8</a>); fols. 30b-31b (item 9) <em>Risālah al-Fahm al-thāqib ilá al-fahm al-murāqib</em> attributed to <a href="bioP.html#plato">Plato</a> (<a href="alchemy3.html">MS A 70, item 9</a>); fols. 31b-33b (item 10) <em>Risālah Mufākharat al-a<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>jār</em> attributed to Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (<a href="alchemy44.html">MS A 70, item 10</a>); fols. 33b-37b (item 11) extracts from writings of <a href="bioT.html#tughrai">al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ṭ</font>ughrā’ī</a> (<a href="alchemy49.html">MS A 70, item 11</a>); fols. 38a-38b (item 12) untitled treatise attributed to <a href="bioA.html#agatho">Agathodaimon</a> (<a href="alchemy5.html">MS A 70, item 12</a>); fols. 39a-41a (item 13) <em>Risālah fī <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ṣ</font>inā‘at al-iksīr</em> by <a href="bioA.html#imadal-din">A<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>mad ibn ‘Imād al-Dīn</a> (<a href="alchemy54.html">MS A 70, item 13</a>); fols. 41a-45a (item 14) <em>Risālah fī bayān tafrīq al-adyān wa-tafarru‘ al-‘ibādāt wa-al-diyānāt wa-al-i‘tiqādāt</em> by <a href="bioZ.html#zosimos">Zosimos</a> (<a href="alchemy7.html">MS A 70, item 14</a>); fols. 45a-47b (item 15) <em>Kitāb al-Fu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ṣ</font>ūl</em> attributed to Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (MS A 70, item 15); fols. 47b-48b (item 16) extracts from writings of al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ṭ</font>ughrā’ī (<a href="alchemy49.html#a70item16">MS A 70, item 16</a>); fols. 49a-52b (item 17) untitled <em>risālah</em> attributed to <a href="bioK.html#khalid">Khālid ibn Yazīd</a> (<a href="alchemy9.html">MS A 70, item 17</a>); fols. 52b-53b (item 18) <em>Kitāb al-Mujarradāt</em> [extracts] attributed to Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (<a href="alchemy39.html">MS A 70, item 18</a>); fols. 53b-57b (item 19) <em>Masā’il</em> attributed to Khālid ibn Yazīd (<a href="alchemy8.html">MS A 70, item 19</a>); fols. 57b-60a (item 20) <em>Kitāb al-Sirr al-Maknūn</em> by Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (<a href="alchemy33.html">MS A 70, item 20</a>); fols. 60a-63a (item 21) extract <em>(nubdhah)</em> from the writings of al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ṭ</font>ughrā’ī (<a href="alchemy49.html#a70item21">MS A 70, item 21</a>); fols. 63a-63b (item 22) <em>Aqwāl al-mutaffariqāt</em>, anonymous (<a href="alchemy55.html">MS A 70, item 22</a>); fols. 63b, lines 6-13 (item 23), alchemical note, anonymous (<a href="alchemy56.html">MS A 70, item 23</a>); fols. 63b-64a (item 24) <em>Kitāb al-Mawāzīn</em> [extracts] by Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (<a href="alchemy35.html">MS A 70, item 24</a>); fols. 64a-64b (item 25) <em>Kitāb al-Sirr al-Maknūn</em> [extract] by Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (<a href="alchemy33a.html">MS A 70, item 25</a>); fols 64b-67a (item 26) <em>Kitāb al-A<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>jār ‘alá ra’y Balīnās</em> by Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (<a href="alchemy34.html">MS A 70, item 26</a>); and fols. 67a-67b (item 27) untitled treatise attributed to Agathodaimon (<a href="alchemy6.html">MS A 70, item 27</a>).</p>
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<p class="indent"> The volume is bound in a soft brown-leather <a href="glossary.html#bindings">binding</a>. On each cover there is a <a href="glossary.html#blind">blind-tooled</a> design formed of straight lines. There are no <a href="glossary.html#pastedowns">pastedowns</a> or <a href="glossary.html#endpapers">endpapers</a>. </p>
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<p class="indent"> The volume was purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A.S. Yahuda (ELS 1701 Med 120). </p>
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<p class="indent"><a href="abbreviation.html#schullian">Schullian/Sommer</a>, <em>Cat. of incun. & MSS.</em>, entry A 70, p. 320, where says it a collection of 32 alchemical treatises. </p>
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