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First edition of the most important Arabic lapidary, in an unusually handsome neoclassical binding by the Vatican bindery.Al-Tifashi (1184-1253), a native of Tifâche in Tunisi, was a geology scholar and merchant, poet and anthologist. This, his principal work, forms the most famous and complete treatise of the Middle Ages on minerals and gems. It treats "twenty-five stones in as many chapters" (DSB): "pearls, jacinth, emerald, topaz, balas ruby, benfesc (bezoar?), garnet, diamond ., turquoise, carnelian, onyx, magnet (lodestone), . lapis lazuli, coral . Other names for the same stones are also given, as well as their origin, sources, qualities, defects, magical & medicinal properties, values, and prices" (Sinkankas). "No critical edition of the book has been produced, but a text with Italian translation was printed in 1818" (DSB). The author researched his subject of journeys to Armenia, Persia, Turkmenistan, India, Andalusia and Mesopotamia. Drawing on local knowledge, he compiled a description for each stone which provides their physical-chemical characteristics, the best methods for preservation, and even some Persian etymologies.On his travels as a gem dealer, Al-Tifashi had visited the Gulf some time in the 1240s. "He gives around 13 different names for types of pearls [.] We learn that pearls were typically sold in bunches of 10 strings of 36 pearls [.] He gives a list of prices for such bunches for values starting at 1/6 mithqal per string, costing 3/4 dinar for a bunch of 10 such strings (i.e. 360 pearls, costing around £67 at today's gold prices, or ca. 19 pence per pearl). At the higher end of the scale he gives prices for strings weighing 4 mithqals, costing 200 dinars for a bunch of 10 such strings [.] He gives values for [single strings of 36 pearls] weighing up to 7 mithqals [.] A single large pearl with the right qualities (spherical, pure colour, good water 'which is the sheen', and 'of translucent core, which is the orient') weighing 1 mithqal would cost 300 dinars, but if it had an identical pair then together they would cost 700 dinars. The largest pearl priced by Al-Tifashi weighed just over 2 dirhams [.] This would be 700 dinars alone, but if it had a pair they would cost 2000 dinars each, thus 4000 dinars for a pair of the largest perfect pearls considered by Al-Tifashi" (Carter, 49).Edited and translated by the scholar Antonio Ranieri Biscia (1780-1836), who had himself travelled the Middle East and visited the Arabian Peninsula. This remains his most celebrated effort, based on the manuscript Or.368 in the Biblioteca Laurenziana of Florence. To print the Arabic text, the press utilized the types that had originally been designed by Giovanni Battista Raimondi for the Typographia Medicea, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in 1591.Provenance: Bound for Pope Leo XII (Annibale della Genga, 1760-1829) in a splendid binding from the Vatican Bindery: both covers have a series of frames composed of seven different fillets or by roll-tooled gilt borders framing the central panel. Inside this field is a first border of entwined floral elements, at the corners four large fans with lanceolate tools, in the central panel the Pope's coat of arms is stamped in gold, surmounted by the Triregnum and surrounded by rich floral decorations and small stars. The spine features the title in one compartment, while the other five are closely gilt with small tools of four different types.An excellent and fresh copy with wide margins.l Balzani, R., L'arte contesa nell'età di Napoleone, Pio VII e Canova (Milan, 2009), p. 246, form no. 6.30. Brunet V, 690; DSB XIII, 407; GAL S I, 904; Fischer, H., Nephrit und Jadeit nach ihren mineralogischen Eigenschaften (Stuttgart, 1880), p. 182f.; Sinkankas 6557; cf. Carter, Sea of Pearls (2012), pp. 49ff. Contemporary gold tooled light brown polished calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, the papal supralibros in the central panel on both boards, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Pages: [62], 1-10; [2 blank], 11-118 pp.

Folio (205 x 281 mm). (62), 1-10; (2 blanks), 11-118 pp. Contemporary light-brown polished calf, both covers elaborately gilt with the papal supralibros in the central panel; spine in six compartments with gilt title and closely gilt with small tools of four different types. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. First edition of the most important Arabic lapidary, in an unusually handsome neoclassical binding by the Vatican bindery. - Al-Tifashi (1184-1253), a native of Tifâche in Tunisi, was a geology scholar and merchant, poet and anthologist. This, his principal work, forms the most famous and complete treatise of the Middle Ages on minerals and gems. It treats "twenty-five stones in as many chapters" (DSB): "pearls, jacinth, emerald, topaz, balas ruby, benfesc (bezoar?), garnet, diamond ., turquoise, carnelian, onyx, magnet (lodestone), . lapis lazuli, coral . Other names for the same stones are also given, as well as their origin, sources, qualities, defects, magical & medicinal properties, values, and prices" (Sinkankas). "No critical edition of the book has been produced, but a text with Italian translation was printed in 1818" (DSB). The author researched his subject of journeys to Armenia, Persia, Turkmenistan, India, Andalusia and Mesopotamia. Drawing on local knowledge, he compiled a description for each stone which provides their physical-chemical characteristics, the best methods for preservation, and even some Persian etymologies. - On his travels as a gem dealer, Al-Tifashi had visited the Gulf some time in the 1240s. "He gives around 13 different names for types of pearls [.] We learn that pearls were typically sold in bunches of 10 strings of 36 pearls [.] He gives a list of prices for such bunches for values starting at 1/6 mithqal per string, costing 3/4 dinar for a bunch of 10 such strings (i.e. 360 pearls, costing around £67 at today's gold prices, or ca. 19 pence per pearl). At the higher end of the scale he gives prices for strings weighing 4 mithqals, costing 200 dinars for a bunch of 10 such strings [.] He gives values for [single strings of 36 pearls] weighing up to 7 mithqals [.] A single large pearl with the right qualities (spherical, pure colour, good water 'which is the sheen', and 'of translucent core, which is the orient') weighing 1 mithqal would cost 300 dinars, but if it had an identical pair then together they would cost 700 dinars. The largest pearl priced by Al-Tifashi weighed just over 2 dirhams [.] This would be 700 dinars alone, but if it had a pair they would cost 2000 dinars each, thus 4000 dinars for a pair of the largest perfect pearls considered by Al-Tifashi" (Carter, 49). - Edited and translated by the scholar Antonio Ranieri Biscia (1780-1836), who had himself travelled the Middle East and visited the Arabian Peninsula. This remains his most celebrated effort, based on the manuscript Or.368 in the Biblioteca Laurenziana of Florence. To print the Arabic text, the press utilized the types that had originally been designed by Giovanni Battista Raimondi for the Typographia Medicea, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in 1591. - An excellent and fresh copy with wide margins. - Bound for Pope Leo XII (Annibale della Genga, 1760-1829). - Sinkankas 6557. DSB XIII, 407. GAL S I, 904. Brunet V, 690. H. Fischer, Nephrit und Jadeit nach ihren mineralogischen Eigenschaften (Stuttgart, 1880), p. 182f. R. Balzani, L'arte contesa nell'età di Napoleone, Pio VII e Canova (Milan, 2009), p. 246, form no. 6.30. Cf. Carter, Sea of Pearls (2012), pp. 49ff.

2 vols. 4to (182 x 260 mm). Arabic manuscript on paper. Black naskh script. 61 ff; 69 ff. (1st vol. missing a few leaves, wanting part of chapter 4 and chapters 5-7). Late 18th or early 19th century full leather elaborately ruled in blind, fully rebacked with modern leather. A defining survival: the earliest known manuscript of the most important Islamic work on sexuality, whose dating serves to narrow down the work's long-elusive authorship as never before. - Often erroneously attributed to its famous Ottoman Turkish translator, Ibn Kemal (1469-1534), the original "Kitab Ruju' al-Shaykh" was not an Ottoman invention nor even a compilation of several Arabic texts, but an original and incredibly scarce Arabic work in its own right, of which few other copies survive. Two are held in institutions in America, one at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and one in Sharjah's Al Qasimia University. Of the two American witnesses, the Yale manuscript is dated to 1713 CE (Muharram 1125 H), and Princeton's tentatively to the 16th century; the BNF's is from the 18th century. Al Qasimia's copy is not dated in the catalogue, but the manuscript's incipit cites Ibn Kemal as its author, placing it after his death, and likely later. - The present example of the "Kitab Ruju' al-Shaykh" predates all its known fellow Arabic manuscripts - as well as the more common Ottoman Turkish translation - by hundreds of years. Its paper and paleographic style place it in the early 1300s, and this date has been supported by radiocarbon dating, which gave a range of 1280-1390 CE with the higher-level 2-sigma confidence rating, indicating 94-95% accuracy (digital C14 scientific report by CIRAM, Martillac, is included). Its early date makes this manuscript, to our knowledge, the earliest of its kind: a remarkable survival of a remarkable handbook of sex in the Arab world. - The author behind the "Kitab Ruju' al-shaykh" cannot be Ibn Kemal, and the work is sometimes instead considered anonymous. However, the contested author was very likely the 13th century physician Shihab al-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmed ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi (d. 1253 CE). Brockelmann, as well as the Yale, Princeton, and BNF manuscript catalogues and others (see Artan and Schick, p. 158) have already identified al-Tifashi as the author of the original "Ruju' al-Shaykh", and the early date of this manuscript helps to confirm the attribution. Al-Tifashi is in many ways a sensible choice: born in North Africa (either Tunisia or Algeria), he studied first in Tunis and then in Cairo, where he was widely known as a physician and for a book on gemstones. He wrote one other work on sex, too: "The delight of hearts, or what you will not find in any book" ("Nuzhat alalbab fima la yujad fi kitab"), which has attracted particular scholarly interest for its homoerotic content. Most importantly, al-Tifashi fits perfectly into the dating of this early 14th century manuscript, which would have been written only a generation after the author's death. - The full title of the "Kitab Ruju' al-Shaikh", loosely translated, is "The return of the old man to youth through the power of sex". It comprises two volumes, into which the manuscript has been physically divided. The second volume, entirely dedicated to women, covers erotic anecdotes, bawdy poems, and detailed stories of trysts covering a variety of sexual preferences; some of these are well known from Ibn Kemal's translation and made the Turkish "Ruju' al-Shaykh" the most famous of all Ottoman bahnameh erotic literature. The first volume, however, is exclusively on men and comprises thirty chapters (of which the latter half of chapter 4 and chapters 5-7 are sadly missing from this text, owing to the loss of several leaves) which cover an incredible collection of medical and pharmaceutical sexual science missing from the Ottoman version: lessons on anatomy, sexual hygiene, and recipes for various aphrodisiacs (especially for older men), and for drugs which would promote.