64 MESSRS. H. E. STAPLETON AND R. F. AZO ON 
(d) Six lines of poetry “ by the Imam Zainu-d-Din Abu-l-Hasan ‘All ibn ‘Abdi-r- 
Rahman ibn Haidar Al-Halabl. May God give us many like him 
He is the Master of the High Art ! ’ ’ 
( e ) Two-and-a-lialf pages of extracts from the c Second Book of the Blood ’ by 
Jabir. It includes references to Jabir’s Kitabu-sA-Sha‘ ar (Book of the 
Hair), and the “ Second Book of Eggs that precedes this. 1 * ” 
(/) Extract from the treatise of the Monk, the author of Al-Farfir ( Sdhibu-l - 
Far fir): 
(g) vSayings of Rusam (probably Zosimus) ; 
Maria, the sister of Moses ; 
and Democritos. 3 
(h) A 5-line “ extract from a chapter written in the hand-writing of the Master 
Mu’ayyidu-d-Din who states that he copied it from an ancient MS. 4 
This reference, compared with the colophon of the first treatise in 
the Rampur MS., appears to prove that the compilation now under 
discussion was made by the original 13th Century copyist of the 
whole MS. 
(i) Extracts “from the Great Book of Tardkib (Combinations) on the Art by 
Jabir ibn Hayyan. May God sanctify his noble spirit! ” The 
quotation is 4 pages in length, and includes a two-thirds of a page 
description of the Combination of Occidental and Oriental Mercury. 5 
(7) Prescriptions from the writings of 
Imam MuTnu-d-Din, “ speaking on the authority of 
‘the Man’ and believing in it (the reddening 
process) ” 6 ; 
1 wlRJ| A- 4 ohi' cfA't oAA ILLS’ The 23rd on the list of Jabir’s largest collection of alchemical 
tracts is a KUabu-d-Dam (Book of the Blood), but no Second Book is mentioned (cf.Fihrist,ed.cit., p, 356, 1. 1). 
As however there are several Second Books included in the list, e.g., Book of “ Eggs,” “Animals,” “Salts,” 
“Stones,” etc., and only 104 treatises are catalogued out of the 112 making up the entire volume, it may have 
dropped out. The Second Book of Eggs is mentioned next to the Kitdbu-l-Mujarradat (cf. p. 57, note, supra) on 1. 8 of 
the same page of the Fihrist, and the Kitabu-sh-Sha' ar in 1. 1 follows next to the Kitabu-d-Dam, which in turn is 
preceded by the K. u-l-Baidh (i.e., The First Book of Eggs). This may be the origin of the remark that the Second 
Book of Eggs precedes the Book of the Hair, or else the Second Book of the Blood has dropped out after the Second 
Book of Eggs. 
s or “ the wearer of the purple,” i.e. , a Bishop. 
3 Zosimus, Mary and Democritos were constantly quoted together as authorities in the early centuries of the Christian 
era {cf. B., Coll, des Alchimistes grecs, passim), where also many works ascribed to first andlast named will be found). Mary 
and Democritos were regarded by Zosimos himself as his chief authorities. An analysis of more extensive treatises from 
Svriac and Arabic MSS. is also given in Berthelot’s La Chimie au Mo-yen Age, Tome III. 
4 jit Jlji Liu ( i ^ /0 , i.e., At-Tu gli r a ’ 1 . 
6 There are two treatises on combination (Tarkib) recorded among the 112 (op. cit., 11. 5 and 10), but none with the 
precise title of Kitabu-t-Tardkihi-l-Kabir. Berthelot, however, gives in Vol. Ill of his La Chimie the translation of two 
short treatises on Oriental and Occidental Mercury respectively, which may have been included in the work referred to. 
6 - ujMi , The name of this alchemist cannot be 
traced. 
