liquid and dried black inks and coloured inks
Iraq
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
Preparation Steps
The treatise by al-Marrākušī focuses on liquid and dried formats of black and coloured inks (p. 111).
Original Recipe Text
The treatise by al-Marrākušī focuses on liquid and dried formats of black and coloured inks (p. 111).
Evidence
"The topics covered in his treatise are limited to the preparation of different types of liquid and dried black inks and coloured inks (p. 111)."
Remarks
Kitāb al-azhār fī ʿamal al-aḥbār was compiled by Muḥammad Ibn Maymūn al-Marrākušī al-Ḥimyarī during his stay in the madrasa al-Mustanṣiriyya in Baġdād; the autograph is dated 649/1251–2 (p. 111).
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
philological analysis
textual transmission study
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
ink
ColorBlack
RegionIraq
Approx. Year1250
Source Information
AuthorSara Fani, "The Literary Dimension and Life of Arabic Treatises on Ink Making," in Traces of Ink, ed. Lucia Raggetti
CollectionKitāb al-azhār fī ʿamal al-aḥbār
Language
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