soot of sesame oil (salīṭ)
Yemen
13th Century
Source: Sara Fani, "The Literary Dimension and Life of Arabic Treatises on Ink Making," in Traces of Ink, ed. Lucia Raggetti (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 105-122.
Recipe Details
Ingredients
soot of sesame oil, salīṭ
Preparation Steps
The ink is a carbon-based variety produced using the soot derived from sesame oil (p. 117).
Original Recipe Text
The ink is a carbon-based variety produced using the soot derived from sesame oil (p. 117).
Evidence
"the recipe transmitted is a carbon ink obtained from the soot of sesame oil, which was quite common in other Arab treatises and is described as an Egyptian ink (p. 117)."
Remarks
This recipe (MM II.6) is notable for using the Yemeni dialectal term 'salīṭ' to indicate sesame oil, which helps identify authorial or regional layers in the treatise (p. 117).
Scientific Analysis
Chemical CompositionC
Analytical Techniques
lexical analysis
comparative textual analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
ink
ColorBlack
RegionYemen
Approx. Year1250
Source Information
AuthorSara Fani, "The Literary Dimension and Life of Arabic Treatises on Ink Making," in Traces of Ink, ed. Lucia Raggetti
CollectionAl-muḫtaraʿ fī funūn min al-ṣunaʿ
Language
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