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Take green gallnuts, crush them into quarters and thirds, and place them in a narrow-necked bottle. Pour five times their volume of water over them and place them in the sun for a night. Clarify it until half of it remains, then clarify it. For every *ratl* of gallnut water, add five *asanir* of ground Gum Arabic and half an *uqiyyah* of green vitriol, and write with it.

Original Recipe Text

Take green gallnuts, crush them into quarters and thirds, and place them in a narrow-necked bottle. Pour five times their volume of water over them and place them in the sun for a night. Clarify it until half of it remains, then clarify it. For every *ratl* of gallnut water, add five *asanir* of ground Gum Arabic and half an *uqiyyah* of green vitriol, and write with it.

Remarks

*Isnar* (singular of *asanir*) is four and a half *mithqals*.

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