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<h1><a name="top"></a>Catalogue: Alchemy</h1>
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<em>Kitāb Nihāyat al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ṭ</font>alab fī shar<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font> Kitāb</em> [<em>al-‘ilm</em>] <em>al-Muktasab dar zirā‘at-i dhahab</em> <span class="ms"> (MS P 27, item 1)</span></dt>
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<dd>(<em>The Book of the End of the Search regarding the commentary on 'The Book of Acquired Knowledge concerning the Cultivation of Gold'</em>)</dd>
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<dd><strong>كتاب نهاية الطلب فى شرح كتاب [العلم] المكتسب در زراعت ذهب</strong></dd>
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<dd>by ‘Izz al-Dīn Aydamir ibn ‘Abd Allāh <a href="bioJ.html#jaldaki">al-Jaldakī</a> (<a href="glossary.html#d">d.</a> 1342/743)</dd>
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<dd><strong>عز الدين ايدمر ابن عبد الله الجلدكى</strong></dd>
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<p class="indent">NLM has a Persian alchemical tract in 5 sections (jumlahs) that appears to be a (partial?) Persian translation of a treatise titled <em>Nihāyat al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ṭ</font>alab</em>, written by ‘Izz al-Dīn Ayadamir al-Jaldakī as a commentary on <a href="bioS.html#simawi">Abū al-Qāsim al-‘Irāqī al-Sīmāwī's</a> alchemical treatise titled <em>Kitāb al-‘ilm al-Muktasab dar zirā‘at-i dhahab</em> (<em>The Book of Acquired Knowledge concerning the Cultivation of Gold</em>). In his commentary on al-Simawi's treatise, al-Jaldakī quotes 42 different works attributed to <a href="bioJ.html#jabir">Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān</a> as well as a large number of other earlier writers on alchemy. </p>
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<p class="indent">This is the only recorded copy of a Persian translation of al-Jaldaki's commentary. For copies of the Arabic original of al-Jaldakī's commentary, see <a href="abbreviation.html#ullmannN">Ullmann, <em>Natur</em></a>, p. 239 note 3. </p>
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<p class="indent">For copies of al-Simawi's Arabic treatise on which al-Jaldaki was commenting, see <a href="abbreviation.html#ullmannN">Ullmann, <em>Natur</em></a>, p. 235 note 6. An English translation of al-Simawi's treatise was published as: <em>Kitab al-‘Ilm al-maktasab fi zira‘at adh-dhahab: Book of knowledge acquired concerning the cultivation of gold by Abu 'l-Qasim Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-‘Iraqi</em>, ed. and trans. Erik John Holmyard (Paris, 1923). </p>
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<p class="indent"><em>Kitāb Nihāyat al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ṭ</font>alab fī shar<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font> Kitāb</em> [<em>al-‘ilm</em>] <em>al-Muktasab dar zirā‘at-i dhahab</em> <span class="ms"> (MS P 27, item 1)</span></p>
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alt="Folio 39 of MS P 27 which features the colophon for a copy of the alchemical treatise Kitāb Nihāyat al-ṭalab fī sharḥ Kitāb [al-‘ilm] al-Muktasab dar zirā‘at-i dhahab (The End of the Search regarding the Commentary on the Book 'The Acquisition [of Knowledge] Concerning the Cultivation of Gold'). The beige paper is nearly matte-finished. The text is written in a medium-small naskh script. There is a note in the top left corner margin. " title="MS P 27, fol. 39a" /></a>
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<p class="indent">The <a href="glossary.html#colophon">colophon</a> for a copy of the alchemical treatise <em>Kitāb Nihāyat al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ṭ</font>alab fī shar<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font> Kitāb</em> [<em>al-‘ilm</em>] <em>al-Muktasab dar zirā‘at-i dhahab</em> (<em>The End of the Search regarding the Commentary on the Book 'The Acquisition [of Knowledge] Concerning the Cultivation of Gold'</em>). It is probably a Persian translation of a treatise by al-Jaldakī (d. 1342/743). In the colophon, at the bottom of the page, it is stated that the copy was completed at Kashan in the month of Rajab 1133 (= 28 April-27 May 1721) by the <a href="glossary.html#scribe">scribe</a> ‘Abd al-Ra<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>mān Fa<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḍ</font>l Allāh al-Kāshānī. </p>
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<p class="indent"> Persian. 39 <a href="glossary.html#leaves">leaves</a> (fols. 1b-39a). <a href="glossary.html#dimensions">Dimensions</a>
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21.4 x 16.6 (text area 16.3 x 9.8) cm; 22 lines per page. The title is given on fol. 29b, line 10 as: <em>Kitāb Nihāyat al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ṭ</font>alab fī shar<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font> Kitāb al-Muktasab dar zirā‘at-i dhahab</em>. The author is not named. </p>
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<p class="indent"> The copy was completed at Kāshān in the month of Rajab 1133 (= 28 April-27 May 1721) by the scribe ‘Abd al-Ra<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>mān Fa<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḍ</font>l Allāh al-Kāshānī (colophon, fol. 39a lines 20-21). On fol. 29b, lines 10-11, the year 997 is given, and the middle of the month of Rajab, with the statement 'by the hand of ‘Abd al-Ra<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>mān'; this statement is written by the same hand as the <a href="glossary.html#colophon">colophon</a> (fol. 39a), where the year is written in both numerals and words as 1133, and it is likely that this latter date is the correct one. </p>
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<p class="indent"> The text is written in a medium-small <a href="glossary.html#naskh">naskh</a> script with pink-red <a href="glossary.html#overlinings">overlinings</a> (which may have been added later) and a few headings in about the same color. There are <a href="glossary.html#catchword">catchwords</a>. The first three items in the volume are by the same <a href="glossary.html#copyist">copyist</a>. </p>
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<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. Repairs have been made to fol. 1. </p>
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<p class="indent">The volume consists of 41 leaves. Fol. 1a is blank except for penciled note (Collection: <em>Risalat Jabir</em>) attributing the volume to <a href="bioJ.html#jabir">Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān</a> and an undeciphered phrase in Persian script. Fols. 1a-39a (item 1) contain <em>Kitāb Nihāyat al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ṭ</font>alab fī shar<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font> Kitāb</em> [<em>al-‘ilm</em>] <em>al-Muktasab dar zirā‘at-i dhahab</em> here catalogued; fols. 39b-40a (item 2) a Persian treatise on the smelting of iron), attributed to Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (<a href="alchemy43.html">MS P 27, item 2</a>); folios 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 an Arabic alchemical chapter from <em>itāb al-‘Ilm al-makhzūn fī mufāri<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḍ</font>ah</em> attributed to Jābir ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayyān (<a href="alchemy42.html">MS P 27, item 5</a>). </p>
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<p class="indent"> There is an owner's stamp on fol. 41b (not legible). </p>
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<p class="indent"> The volume was purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A.S. Yahuda (ELS 2357 m. 127). </p>
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<p class="indent"><a href="abbreviation.html#schullian">Schullian/Sommer</a>, <em> Cat. of incun. & MSS.</em>, entry P 27 item 1, p. 339. </p>
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