The illuminated opening of a copy of the alchemical treatise Kitāb al-Burhān fī asrār ‘ilm al-mīzān (Proof Regarding the Secrets of the Science of the Balance) by al-Jaldakī (d. 1342/743). The undated and unsigned copy was made in Morocco and is typical of products made in the scribal workshops of Marrakesh during the second half of the 19th century.

A schematic diagram in the form of a pan-balance from a copy of the alchemical treatise Kitāb al-Burhān fī asrār ‘ilm al-mīzān (Proof Regarding the Secrets of the Science of the Balance) by al-Jaldakī (d. 1342). The undated and unsigned copy was made in Morocco and is typical of products made in the scribal workshops of Marrakesh during the second half of the 19th century.

The illuminated colophon to the first volume of a seven-volume copy of the alchemical treatise Kitāb al-Burhān fī asrār ‘ilm al-mīzān (Proof Regarding the Secrets of the Science of the Balance) by al-Jaldakī (d. 1342). The undated and unsigned copy was made in Morocco and is typical of products made in the scribal workshops of Marrakesh during the second half of the 19th century.

A schematic table in the form of a series of pan-balances from a copy of the alchemical treatise Kitāb al-Burhān fī asrār ‘ilm al-mīzān (Proof Regarding the Secrets of the Science of the Balance) by al-Jaldakī (d. 1342). The undated and unsigned copy was made in Morocco and is typical of products made in the scribal workshops of Marrakesh during the second half of the 19th century.

An alembic or still-head (lower illustration) and a metal alembic with boiling vessel, illustrated in the margins of a copy of Sharḥ Shudhūr al-dhahab, a commentary by Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Anṣārī on an alchemical-allegorical set of poems by his teacher Ibn Arfa‘ Ra’s (d. 1197/593). The copy was completed in Jumadá I 1123 (March-April 1712) by the copyist Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muṣṭafá al-Anṭākī al-Istanbūlī al-Ḥanafī.

Stylized illustrations of three alembics with cucurbits occur within the text in a copy of Sharḥ Shudhūr al-dhahab, a commentary by Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Anṣārī on an alchemical-allegorical set of poems by his teacher Ibn Arfa‘ Ra’s (d. 1197/593). The copy was completed in Jumadá I 1123 (= March-April 1712) by the copyist Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muṣṭafá al-Anṭākī al-Istanbūlī al-Ḥanafī.

A glass alembic or still-head illustrated in the margins of in a copy of Sharḥ Shudhūr al-dhahab, a commentary by Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Anṣārī on an alchemical-allegorical set of poems by his teacher Ibn Arfa‘ Ra’s (d. 1197/593). The copy was completed in Jumadá I 1123 (= March-April 1712) by the copyist Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muṣṭafá al-Anṭākī al-Istanbūlī al-Ḥanafī.

More elaborate distillation equipment illustrated in the margins of in a copy of Sharḥ Shudhūr al-dhahab, a commentary by Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Anṣārī on an alchemical-allegorical set of poems by his teacher Ibn Arfa‘ Ra’s (d. 1197/593). The copy was completed in Jumadá I 1123 (= March-April 1712) by the copyist Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muṣṭafá al-Anṭākī al-Istanbūlī al-Ḥanafī.