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Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X
Publication Number P.MargoliouthMonneret I 3 recto
Current Location private collection
Publication Permission Status no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Monneret, M. G.
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt The western bank of the nile opposite Aswan
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type paper
Dating of Object Abbasid rule (I) 1. 1. 801 - 12. 31. 1517 CE
Dating between 801 and 1517
Range of Preservation (undecidable)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object (unknown/uncertain)
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) (unknown)
Inks and Pigments unknown
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
Comments on Text Layout Localization of the text unknown/uncertain, Text layout unknown.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 20

 

Text Content

Modern Title Alchemical prescription
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • scientific | medicine | prescription
Summary of Content Medicine prescription about how to make a medication using white sulphur, shellby of eggs and other things, by mixed, pulverize on a stoneand, cook it with oil, and but them on fire.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text L.3. white sulphur or milk of sulphur, prepared by adding an acid to a solution of calcium polysulphide. It was well known to Muslim alchemists. L. 13. (The mercury) as a symbolic name for the product just obtained. Or, since the (first drug) is mentioned later, this may be simply mercury and the operations described in line 13-16 may be a purification of it.
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Religion Islam

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
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1 بسم الله الروف الروحمن‬‬ الرحيم
2يوخذ على بركة الله وعــونه ‏
3الكبريت الابيض ويصحن معه قشر
4البيض ويلت بزيبق البيض
5‮ تلت جيد ويكون معه متل وزنه
6من الملح الطييب وترميه للنار القوية
7تم تخرجه تجده اسود تعيد عليه
8العمل كالاول وترميه النار ايضا
9وتخرجه تجده اغبر افعل به متل
10الاول تلت دفاع فانه فى التالت
11يخرج ابيض متل الجير فقد صح
12والله الموفق
13فاذا كذلك فخذ الابق وتسحقه على صلاية
14بالماء والملح حتى ينقى من اوساخه تم يضبخه بزيت
15 يوم ان كامل تم تغسله بنطرون وملح متل
16الاول تم تانية بالمقلى تم تلحف بالدواء
17الاول ويشد وصله في بودقة او في
18مكحلة ويودع نار الدمس ليلته
19يوخذ باكر سبيكه تنكسر يلقى درهم
20على عشرة من اي جسد ان اجتمعت تغير ‬‬
R
1In the name of God, the Gentle, the Merciful
2Let there be taken with the blessing of God and His help
3white sulphur and let it be pounded with [shell]
4of eggs and be mixed with mercury of eggs
5well mixed and there shall be there with the same weight
6of pure salt. You shall expose it to a fierce fire
7Then take it out, when you will find it black. You shall repeat
8the operation as before and again expose it to the fire
9taking it out you will find it ashen. Do again as
10before three times, for at the third time
11It will come out white like chalk and will be correct.
12And God is the guide
13And when it is so take the mercury and pulverize it on a stone
14with water and salt till it be freed from impurities, then cook it with oil
15a whole day, then wash it with natron and salt as
16before, then cook it a second time in the frying-pan, then cover with
17the first drug, and seal seal it up firmly in a pot or
18kuḥl-box, and let it be set for the night on a slow fire.
19Next morning there will be found an ingot, brittle, of which on drachm [should be projected upon]
2010 of any metallic body. If they come together the change will ensue

     
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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Arabic Period 801 January 1 CE ;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309581
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 464021
Author Ahmed Kamal
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309581 (= Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.