Three recipes for incense

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Three recipes for incense paste. This text is on ff. 47v-49v of the Coptic foliation.

Begins (f. 28v, lines 10-13 [47v Coptic foliation]):

بسم الأب والابن وروح القدس إله وا

حد هذه صفة بخور معجون طيب تأخذ

من العود السن الجيد رطل ونصف رطل

صندل وربع رطل سك جيد ووقية (!) ...

Ends (30r, line 13-30v, line 2 [49r-49v Coptic foliation]):

... و

يصلح على ما وصفنا فوق وهذا وقفت

عليه من صفة دق البخور وصلى على من أجل

الله ...

Extent and format

Ff. 28v-30v

It is part of

Fragment of a Christian Arabic Miscellany

78 images

Ref: Or 8857

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 8857, ff 28v-30v

History of this record

Date(s)

ca 1000

Related material

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Catalogue record for other fragment of manuscript:

• Löfgren, Oscar and Renato Traini, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, 3 vols (Vicenza: Neri Pozza Editore, 1975–95), vol. 1, item XXXIII, pp. 33-35

Subjects

Incense

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