anemones (shaqāʾiq al-nuʿmān)
Iraq
13th Century
Source: Sara Fani, 'Literary Dimension and Life of Arabic Treatises on Ink Making', pp. 106-125.
Recipe Details
Ingredients
anemones (shaqāʾiq al-nuʿmān), wet dung (sarjīn raṭb), phial (qārūra)
Preparation Steps
Described as an ink that 'does not peel off and is also a dye'. The procedure involves taking anemones and placing them in a thin phial (qārūra raqīqa). The phial is then buried in wet dung (al-sarjīn al-raṭb). The dung must be replaced every three days. This process continues until the ingredients dissolve and become like water (tadhūba wa-taṣīru māʾan). Marrākušī's version is an expanded redaction of earlier recipes found in al-Rāzī and Ibn Bādīs. (p. 124-125)
Original Recipe Text
Described as an ink that 'does not peel off and is also a dye'. The procedure involves taking anemones and placing them in a thin phial (qārūra raqīqa). The phial is then buried in wet dung (al-sarjīn al-raṭb). The dung must be replaced every three days. This process continues until the ingredients dissolve and become like water (tadhūba wa-taṣīru māʾan). Marrākušī's version is an expanded redaction of earlier recipes found in al-Rāzī and Ibn Bādīs. (p. 124-125)
Evidence
"مداد لا يقتلع أبدا وهو أيضا خضاب... ثم تدفنه في سرجين رطب وتبدل سرجين كل ثلاث ايام"
Remarks
Marrākušī compiled this treatise in the madrasa al-Mustanṣiriyya in Baghdad. His version of this recipe includes numerous interventions in terms of practical advice and expanded instructions compared to the scantiest versions found in the Yemeni or Andalusian treatises. (p. 111, 120, 125)
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
Comparative textual analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
ink
ColorRed
RegionIraq
Approx. Year1250
Source Information
AuthorSara Fani, 'Literary Dimension and Life of Arabic Treatises on Ink Making', pp. 106-125.
CollectionKitāb al-azhār fī ʿamal al-aḥbār by Muḥammad Ibn Maymūn al-Marrākušī
Language
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