Four treatises on pharmacopoeia, cookery and craft techniques [‎head] (5/460)

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Four treatises on pharmacopoeia, cookery and craft techniques

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Ref: Or 5927

The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+219+i (plus five unfoliated leaves after ff. 11, 34, 101, 208 and 217). It was created in 15th or 16th century. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Ṣināʿat al-yad (صناعة اليد, ff. 1r-67v, defective at beginning);
Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Kitāb al-aghdhiyyah (كتاب الأغذية, ff 68r-100r, defective at beginning and end);
Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (ابن رزين التجيبي), Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʻām wa-al-alwān (فضالة الخوان في طيبات الطعام والألوان, ff. 101r-204v, defective at end);
Anonymous treatise on craft techniques (ff. 205r-217v, defective at end).

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Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+219+i (plus five unfoliated leaves after ff. 11, 34, 101, 208 and 217)

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Material: Western laid paper, with watermark in the shape of a hand (see e.g. f. 67)

Dimensions: 275 x 170 mm leaf [200 x 130 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭara ; 31 lines per page; vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cm

Script: Maghribī

Ink: Brown ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum half-leather binding

Condition: Defective at beginning and end; tidemarks at head and tail, ff. 1-27, 100 and 188 mutilated and repaired; some iron-gall ink corrosion repaired

Marginalia: Few by more than one hand

Seals: None

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Arabic in Arabic script

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Reference: Or 5927
Title: Four treatises on pharmacopoeia, cookery and craft techniques
Pages: front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 100v, 217ar:217av, 218r:219v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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