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This alchemical manual presents earthly substances and their chemical operations according to the arrangement of al-Razi's treatise Sirr al-Asrar, composed in the ninth century.
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SIGNED 'ABD AL-QADIR BIN ABU AL-QASIM BIN 'ABDULLAH AL-HUSAYN AL-'ARRAFI, MEKNES, MOROCCO, DATED 14 JUMADA II AH 1244/22 DECEMBER 1828 AD
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ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD BIN ISHAQ AL-HARRANI: KITAB AL-KASHF AL-ANI FI 'ILM SINA'AT AL-KIMIYA WA AL-AHJAR AL-KARIMA
SIGNED 'ABD AL-QADIR BIN ABU AL-QASIM BIN 'ABDULLAH AL-HUSAYN AL-'ARRAFI, MEKNES, MOROCCO, DATED 14 JUMADA II AH 1244/22 DECEMBER 1828 AD
On Alchemy, Arabic manuscript on paper, 40ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of neat maghribi script, titles and important words in red, with catchwords, occasional marginal notes, preceded with table of contents, colophon signed and dated and mentioning the place of copy, in modern stamped brown binding
Folio 8.7/8 x 6.3/4in. (22.7 x 17.3cm.)
SIGNED 'ABD AL-QADIR BIN ABU AL-QASIM BIN 'ABDULLAH AL-HUSAYN AL-'ARRAFI, MEKNES, MOROCCO, DATED 14 JUMADA II AH 1244/22 DECEMBER 1828 AD
On Alchemy, Arabic manuscript on paper, 40ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of neat maghribi script, titles and important words in red, with catchwords, occasional marginal notes, preceded with table of contents, colophon signed and dated and mentioning the place of copy, in modern stamped brown binding
Folio 8.7/8 x 6.3/4in. (22.7 x 17.3cm.)
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