01-12-2023, 05:03 PM
'On close examination Gabriele Ferrario discovered it was in fact a collection of alchemical recipes. What makes it special, compared to many other alchemical recipes in the Genizah, is that there are not only technical instructions but they reference in quite a lot of detail books of Arabic alchemical literature – works from the Jabirian corpus.'
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragme...e-ferrario
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragme...e-ferrario