MS Princeton Garrett 544H

Name: MS Princeton Garrett 544H
Cuisine: Iraq

Iraq

19th Century

Source: Lucia Raggetti, "Ordinary Inks and Incredible Tricks in al-ʿIrāqī’s ʿUyūn al-ḥaqāʾiq," in Alchemy in the Making, 2021, pp. 154-200.

Recipe Details

Evidence

"The manuscript is written in a cursive nasḫ, chapter headings and the incipits of their subdivisions are rubricated. (p. 157)"

Remarks

This 19th-century copy (1858 CE) of al-Irāqī's 13th-century text is used as the basis for the laboratory edition. It includes a secret alphabet used to encode technical details such as ingredient names or quantities (p. 157).

Scientific Analysis

Analytical Techniques

Visual analysis

Codicological description

Certainty Level

Confirmed

Instrumentally Verified

Not Verified

Metadata

Material Type

paper

Paper TypeMS Princeton Garrett 544H

RegionIraq

Approx. Year1850

Source Information

TitleOrdinary Inks and Incredible Tricks in al-ʿIrāqī’s ʿUyūn al-ḥaqāʾiq

AuthorLucia Raggetti, "Ordinary Inks and Incredible Tricks in al-ʿIrāqī’s ʿUyūn al-ḥaqāʾiq," in Alchemy in the Making, 2021, pp. 154-200.

CollectionMS Princeton Garrett 544H

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