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<h1><a name="top"></a>Catalogue: Alchemy</h1>
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<em>Kit&#257;b al-&#8216;Ilm al-makhz&#363;n f&#299; muf&#257;ri<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7693;</font>ah</em> &nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="ms">(MS P 27, item 5)</span></dt>
<dd>(<em>The Book of Accumulated Knowledge on Suppositions</em>)</dd>
<dd><strong>&#1603;&#1578;&#1575;&#1576; &#1575;&#1604;&#1593;&#1604;&#1605; &#1575;&#1604;&#1605;&#1582;&#1586;&#1608;&#1606; &#1601;&#1609; &#1605;&#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1590;&#1577;</strong></dd>
<dd>attributed to Ab&#363; M&#363;s&#225; <a href="bioJ.html#jabir">J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n</a> (8th-9th century)</dd>
<dd><strong>&#1580;&#1575;&#1576;&#1585; &#1575;&#1576;&#1606; &#1581;&#1610;&#1575;&#1606;</strong></dd>
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<p class="indent">The National Library of Medicine has a <a href="glossary.html#manuscript">manuscript</a> (MS A 27) preserving a chapter titled <em>B&#257;b khaw<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7693;</font> al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7789;</font>aruq al-aqrab</em> (<em>Chapter on the Examination of the Closest Methods</em>) stated to be taken from a treatise titled from <em>Kit&#257;b al-&#8216;Ilm al-makhz&#363;n f&#299; muf&#257;ri<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7693;</font>ah</em> (<em>The Book of Accumulated Knowledge on Suppositions</em>) by J&#257;bir. </p>
<p class="indent">No treatise of such a title is recorded amongst the writings attributed to J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n, yet the NLM copy is specific in giving J&#257;bir as the author. </p>
<p class="indent"> No other copy has been identified. </p>
<p class="indent"> <em>B&#257;b khaw<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7693;</font> al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7789;</font>aruq al-aqrab</em> &nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="ms">(MS P 27, item 5)</span> </p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Physical Description</span></h2>
<p class="indent"> Arabic. 1 <a href="glossary.html#leaf">leaf</a> (fol. 41b). <a href="glossary.html#dimensions">Dimensions</a> 21.4 x 16.6 (text area 16.3 x 9.8) cm. The chapter title is given in the first line of text. On fol. 41b line 2 it is stated to be from <em>Kit&#257;b al-&#8216;Ilm al-makhz&#363;n f&#299; muf&#257;ri<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7693;</font>ah</em> by J&#257;bir. </p>
<p class="indent"> The copy was completed by the same hand as transcribed the previous, fourth, item in the volume. Both items were probably added to the volume after the first three items, which were transcribed at Kashan in the month of Rajab 1133 (= 28 April-27 May 1721). </p>
<p class="indent"> The text is written in a small, compact, <a href="glossary.html#naskh">naskh</a> in black ink with some <a href="glossary.html#overlinings">overlinings</a>. It is written in four different directions on the <a href="glossary.html#folio">folio</a>. </p>
<p class="indent"> The beige paper is nearly matte-finished and has no <a href="glossary.html#laid">laid lines</a> or <a href="glossary.html#chain">chain lines</a> visible; the edges have been trimmed from their original size. The paper is grease and damp stained and soiled through thumbing. </p>
<p class="indent"> The volume consists of 41 <a href="glossary.html#leaves">leaves</a>. Fol. 1a is blank except for penciled note (<em>Collection: Risalat J&#257;bir</em>) attributing the volume to <a href="bioJ.html#jabir">J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n</a> and an undeciphered phrase in Persian script. Fols. 1a-39a (item 1) contain <em>Kit&#257;b Nih&#257;yat al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7789;</font>alab f&#299; shar<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font> Kit&#257;b [al-&#8216;ilm] al-Muktasab dar zir&#257;&#8216;at-i dhahab</em> by <a href="bioJ.html#jaldaki">al-Jaldak&#299;</a> (<a href="alchemy53.html">MS P 27, item 1</a>); fols. 39b-40a (item 2) a Persian treatise on the smelting of iron, attributed to J&#257;bir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>ayy&#257;n (<a href="alchemy43.html">MS P 27, item 2</a>); fols. 40a-40b an untitled short anonymous Persian essay on winds and rain (<a href="natural_hist8.html">MS P 27, item 3</a>); fols. 40b-41b are an Arabic untitled treatise on numerology whose author is given as <a href="bioZ.html#zosimos">Zosimos</a> (<a href="astrology2.html">MS P 27, item 4</a>); and fol. 41b, lower two-thirds, contains the Arabic alchemical chapter taken from <em>Kit&#257;b al-&#8216;Ilm al-makhz&#363;n f&#299; muf&#257;ri<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7693;</font>ah</em> here catalogued. </p>
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<p class="indent"> The volume is bound in a red leather modern library <a href="glossary.html#bindings">binding</a> with <a href="glossary.html#envelope">envelope flap</a>; modern <a href="glossary.html#pastedowns">pastedowns</a> and <a href="glossary.html#endpapers">endpapers</a>. </p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Provenance</span></h2>
<p class="indent"> There is an owner's stamp on fol. 41b (not legible). </p>
<p class="indent"> The volume was purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A.S. Yahuda (ELS 2357 m. 127). </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 P 27 item 1, p. 339. </p>
<p class="psource">NLM Microfilm Reel: FILM 48-137 no. 2 </p>
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