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MESSRS. H. E. STAPLETON AND R. F. AZO ON 
(6) (Extract beginning) fC Jabir says in the Kitabu-l-‘ Ibav ” (Book of Exam- 
ples). 1 
(7) Treatise on the Exposition of the Book of [2 words illegible] on the 
compounding of ‘ Bodies’ and the Elixir. 
(8) Treatise on the Making of the ‘ Black Stone’ from the book of Abu ‘Abdil- 
lah Al-Bakawi (?) 
As the first treatise on the list begins at the 6th line of Folio 116 r. of the MS., it 
will be seen that the index of 115 folios has been lost, but, on the other hand, what 
remains is sufficient to prove that four complete treatises or parts of treatises have 
disappeared from the end of the book. The treatise of the ‘ Black Stone,’ however, 
has been preserved in another manuscript of the Rampur Library (Arabic Alchemy, 
No. 17), so that with the exception of the treatises numbered 5, 6 and 7 in the list 
just given, the book is practically complete. 
As previously stated, many of the treatises appear to have been the work of a 
copyist travelling in Asia Minor and in Mesopotamia in the year A.D. 1283 (682 A.H.), 
who seems in several cases to have utilized MSS. formerly in the possession of 
At-Tughra’i, the celebrated alchemist of the nth Century of the Christian era, 
whose criticism of Ibn Sina’s views will be found in the Vol. Ill of the Prolegomena 
of Ibn Khaldun (DeSlane’s translation, pp. 255 and 256), but no part of the existing 
MS. can be said to be of an earlier date than the 15th Century. 
The importance of the MS. chiefly lies in the range of alchemical treatises that 
are found in it. The more important of these, arranged in chronological order, 
are : — 
(a) The Treatise of Jamas (Jamasp) for Ardashir, who founded the Sas- 
sanian dynasty of Persia in A.D. 226. 
(b) An Arabic translation in 6 books of an extended work by Zosimus, 
the pseudo-philosopher of the 3rd Century A.D. 
Both these Treatises promise to throw much light on the origins of Arabic 
alchemy. 
(c) Two Treatises ascribed to Khalid ibn Yazid, the Umayyad prince, who 
lived at the end of the 7th Century, 
(d) Two short Treatises ascribed to Ja'far As-Sadiq, the ShFite Imam, as 
well as several extracts from books by Jabir, Ja c far’s reputed 
disciple in alchemy. 
( Ar-Razi’s A l- M a elk h alu-l- T a ‘ tin 1 1 . 
v ; l Ar-Razi’s Ash-Shawahid. 
Two of the hitherto lost works on alchemy by this distinguished 
Persian philosopher who flourished c. 900 A.D. The first Treatise, as 
its name implies, is a general introduction to alchemy. The second 
is a volume of extracts from the works of more ancient authors, 
which Ar-Razi considered as the evidences on which the Art was 
1 This book cannot be traced in the Fihrist , 
