Kitāb Tarākīb al-anwārكتاب تراكيب الأنوار

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Kitāb Tarākīb al-anwārكتاب تراكيب الأنوار

Description
An influential alchemical treatise by Muʾayyad al-Dīn abū Ismāʿīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭughrāʾī (d. 515 AH/AD 1121), a high-ranking Seljuq vizier and the most important alchemist of his time. The text was copied in early Raǧab 925 (June/July 1519) at Damascus by Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī (see colophon , f. 57r). At the end of the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , the scribe tells us that he collated his text and corrected it as far as possible. 3 folios have been replaced (ff. 19, 21 and 24).
Permission Description
Public Domain Mark 1.0
Location of Composition
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 13006, ff 77r-91v, in Qatar Digital Library https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023512370.0x000008
Author Name
Muʾayyad al-Dīn abū Ismāʿīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭughrāʾī