Anonymous instructions for producing perfumes
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Anonymous instructions for producing perfumes
- Date:
- 1764/1774
- Description:
- Lines 1-9 give instructions for producing false ambergris (عنبر); lines 9-15 give instructions for a distillation process for oil of cloves and roses; and lines 16-17 give brief instructions for the washing of ṭaḥīnah.Begins (f. 159v, lines 1-4):خذ من الشب ٣٠ درهم ومن البارود ٣٠ درهم وقطرهمبالقرعة والأنبيق وبعده خذ من اللادن ٣٠ درهموقطعه قطع صغار وبعد اطرحه في ذلك الماء القاطر علىالنار اللينة ...Ends (f. 159v, lines 14-18):... وكذلك الرملة مناع الورد لاكن الوردبزبادة النكرار وتقم الماء الورد على ٣ أقسام أو ٥ أقسام أو سبعة أقسام انتهىصفة غسل الطحينة خذ دهنه بالماء وبعد عليه حتى تذهبرائحة افعل به ما شئت انتهى لو كانت الكتب تنيكم بحالاتي كتبت من دموعأياتيf. 159vMaterial: PaperDimensions: 215 x 150 mm leaf [168 x 112 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic foliation in the purple crayon typical of Lebanese bookdealers of the 19th centuryRuling: Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm (ff. 113r-158v: 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 17 lines per 10 cm)Script: Naskhwith nasta‘līqtendencies and some titles in thuluth(ff. 113r-158v: naskh)Scribes: Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī (ff. 3r-112v) and Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (ff. 113r-158v)Ink: Black ink, with rubricated, yellow and green headings and overlinings in red (ff. 113r-158v: black)Binding: British Museum bindingCondition: Some worm damage, foxing, and tears towards the fore edge. Folios 19, 21 and 24 have been replaced.Marginalia: Extensive marginal corrections, conjectures, glosses in Arabic and Persian and other evidence of collation and textual study (ff. 113r-158v: very few)
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type:
- Manuscript item
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800
Chemistry--Early works to 1800 - Extent:
- f. 159v
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100023512370.0x000010_ar
81055/vdc_100023512370.0x000010_en
Or 13006, f 159v - Is part of:
- British Library: Oriental Manuscripts