Manuscript/Book details for Bayan'Ilm-i Kaf

Click on the thumbnails to see the corresponding full sized images.

author
title Bayan'Ilm-i Kaf
language in Arabic/Turkish manuscript paper
place/date n.p 1264A.H./1848A.D.
physical app. Compilation of alchemical texts in Arabic and Turkish, machine-made paper, 34 ff., 22.5 x 17.5 cm, ruq`a script in one or two hands, black ink with occasional rubrication, dated 9 Ramadan <12>64 (1848, colophon on f. 33b), full-leather Oriental binding with gilded ornamentation (borders). price € 395.00
bibliogr. nr. msarab427
context Bayan `Ilm-i Kaf (title thus on f. 1b), purportedly transmitted from a work of the Son of al-Hariri, the author of the Maqamat (so on f. 1b). The following parts can be distinguished: Prose text in Arabic on ff. 1b-5a, poetry (mathnawi) in Turkish (ff. 5b-9b, 30a-b), Prose text(s) in Turkish (ff. 9b-30a, 30b-33b). Several recipes (Sifa) are given.
keyword(s)
additional images

 

East Asia Himalya Islam