golden yellow arsenic (orpiment)
Iraq
13th Century
Source: Lucia Raggetti, "Ordinary Inks and Incredible Tricks in al-ʿIrāqī’s ʿUyūn al-ḥaqāʾiq," in Alchemy in the Making: From Ancient Babylonia via Graeco-Roman Egypt into the Byzantine, Syriac, and Arabic Traditions, 2021.
Recipe Details
Ingredients
golden yellow arsenic (orpiment), water, dissolved gum arabic
Preparation Steps
Take golden yellow arsenic (orpiment), pulverize it, and sift it. Grind it with water on an impermeable stone slab until it does not absorb any more water. Pour the dissolved gum arabic onto it until satisfied and store it away for use in writing or for paints (p. 167).
Original Recipe Text
Take golden yellow arsenic (orpiment), pulverize it, and sift it. Grind it with water on an impermeable stone slab until it does not absorb any more water. Pour the dissolved gum arabic onto it until satisfied and store it away for use in writing or for paints (p. 167).
Evidence
"Take some golden yellow arsenic (orpiment), pulverize it, sift it, and grind it with water on an impermeable stone slab until it does not absorb any more water; pour the dissolved gum arabic onto it until you are satisfied with it"
Remarks
The recipe specifies that the resulting mixture will be 'excellent' (p. 167).
Scientific Analysis
Chemical CompositionAs2S3
Analytical Techniques
Philological analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
ink
RegionIraq
Approx. Year1250
Source Information
AuthorLucia Raggetti, "Ordinary Inks and Incredible Tricks in al-ʿIrāqī’s ʿUyūn al-ḥaqāʾiq," in Alchemy in the Making: From Ancient Babylonia via Graeco-Roman Egypt into the Byzantine, Syriac, and Arabic Traditions, 2021.
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