AN ALCHEMICAL COMPILATION OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, A.D. 
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As-Sadiq is really a compilation from the writings of this more modern inhabitant 
of Baghdad. 
VI. A Persian treatise, without title, and apparently in three parts. (P'olio 
21 v., 1 . 15, to f. 35 v., bottom. End of first part, f. 23 v., 1 . 8 ; and of second part, 
f. 29 v., 1. 15, bottom.) 
Begins (after cryptic figures and letters): “ Of yellow Sulphur 30 dirhams” 
Similar cryptic figures occur at the end of several of the receipts. (Vide also 
below.) 
Ends: “If you project 1 miihqal over 500 of copper the latter will turn into 
pure gold, if it please God. Ka, Sa, Mahma, Lasa, ‘A]] a, Ma , Babat , Halha. 
Finished. 
The treatise is mainly one of prescriptions. The only names mentioned are 
Sa‘du- 1 -Mulk, Bu- 1 -Khai.tab, and Hakim — Peace be on him ! 
VII. An Arabic fragment on alchemy containing 2 prescriptions, the first on 
the making of Red Water, and the second on the Water of Immortality. (Folio 
36 r. et v.). 
VIII. A second Persian treatise, without title, containing prescriptions, and 
several accounts of operations (Folio 37 r., top, to f. 45 r., 1 . 6). No names 
occur. 
Begins: “Chapters on Animal Waters, Water of Hair. When you distil hair 
with yellow Sulphur,” etc. 
Ends: “Here ends this treatise. It has been written with great care and I 
counsel that it should be kept hidden from the undeserving and that the work should 
be performed with due care, lest the reader should fall into error and blame the 
author.” 
IX. A Compendium in Arabic of many extracts and prescriptions. (Folio 
45 r., 1 . 8, to f. 55 r., 1 . 15). There is no title or definite conclusion, but the whole is of 
great importance, both from the number of names mentioned, and from the various 
extracts quoted from works by Jabir. The following list includes all the persons and 
books referred to:— 
(a) Three-line quotation of a saying of Plato to his son. 
(b) Three-line quotation taken from the note-book of Al-Imam Jamalu-d-Din 
At-Tarqi. 1 
(c) Prescriptions of x\bu-l-Hasan ; 
Al-Qaratlsi ; 
Ahmad (referring to Al-Antaki) ; 
and Abu Tayyib. 1 
' The alchemists mentioned in (6), (c) and ( d ) cannot be traced. A unad and Al-Antaki appear, however, to be 
the same people as those mentioned later in the treatise called the Ta‘ wldhhu-l- Hakim, while both Jamalu-d-Din and 
Zainu-d-Dln were evidently contemporaries of the 13th Century copyist. 
