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MESSES. H. E. STAPLETON AND R. F. AZO ON 
Ends: “These are therefore the ‘Three Waters’ that enter into the ‘Great 
Gate.’ And God, the most High, knows best (what is true), Praise be to God, the 
Ford of the Worlds, the praise of those who are thankful, and may His blessings be 
on the best of created beings, Muhammad and on his pure family! Finished at 
Madlnatu-s-Salam (Ba gh dad)' on the 15th of Shawwal in the year 682, by the hand 
of Muhammad ibn Abi-l-Fath ibn Abi Mansur ibn Muhammad Al- Kashi. 1 2, May God 
pardon him and his parents ! ” 
( D ). “ A Chapter I (the copyist) found in an Abridgment of the 
T a‘wldhu-l-H akim at the end of the ‘Smaller Gate.’ ’’ 
(Folio 120 r., 1 . 2, to 120 v., 1 . 13). 
Begins : “ Know, O my son, that the Sages, one and all, have differed in no 
wise about the ‘ Three Pillars.’ They only differ as regards ” (14 operations are then 
mentioned). 
The writer emphasises the importance of the ‘ Great Red Water ’ described at 
the end of the ‘ Smaller Gate,’ which he states was first discovered by his ancestor 
Ja‘far As-Sadiq. 
Ends : “If you repeat the addition to it of water, and its roasting, and tritura- 
tion, it becomes accustomed to torture, and you will have attained your object. Be 
also certain about changing the dung, 3 for by this change, the ‘ Natures’ are molli- 
fied. Peace!’’ 
Four lists of reddening agents follow, which, the copyist points out, are given 
elsewhere in the book on the authority of Khalid ibn Yazld, and not Al-Hakim. 
They occupy the remaining lines of f. 120 v. 
XIX. Chapter on the preparation of the ‘ Water of Eggs’ by our Master Ja‘far 
As-Sadiq : Peace be on him! (Folio 121 r., top, to 124 f, 1 . 17). 
Begins: “ Take of eggs, as many as you desire, and boil them. When they are 
done, remove them and place them in cold water.’’ 
The title appears to be a misnomer, as the ‘Water of Eggs ’ is only incidentally 
mentioned in the first process given (for making silver) , while the rest of the treatise is 
taken up by descriptions of other operations. Towards the end a quotation is given 
from the ‘ Book of the Sun and Moon,’ * besides a story commencing as follows, 
1 The tour of the copyist during the year 682 A.H. is clear from this and previous dated colophons in the Rampur MS. 
(a) Completed the Risalah of Jamasp at Siwas towards the end of Miiharram, i.e. , the first month of the year. 
( b ) Completed the Risalah of Ibn Slna for Al-Barql at Mosul on the last day of the 2nd Jumada ( Sixth month). 
( c ) Finished the Ta'wid,hu-l- Hakim at Baghdad 011 the 15th of Shawwal (Ninth month). 
2 The copyist was apparently a native of Kalian, a town of Slstan, situated on the River Farah, N.-E. of the Zarali 
Lake, and W. of Kandahar. 
* Used in the operation of Hall (Dissolution)— vide Stapleton and Azo, in Mem. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, I, 4, p. 61 : and 
infra, p. 27. 
* A ‘ Great Book of the Sun ’ and a ‘ Great Book of the Moon’ are mentioned among the 10 books written by 
J abir according to the ideas of Apollonius, the maker of talismans (Fihrist, ed. cit., p. 357, 1 . 22), but a direct reference 
to a ' Book on the .Sun and the Moon’ by J abir is to be found in his ‘ Little Book of Balances,’ a translation of which is 
given by Berthcdot in Vol. Ill of La Chimie (vide p. 147). Two books on the Sun and the Moon respectively are also 
mentioned on p. 360 of the Fihrist as being written by Abu -1 Hasan Ahmad Al-Khanshalil, a contemporary of An-Nadim, 
i.e., c. A.D. 975. 
