Appendix 1.

 

Select works of Jābir ibn Hayyān and their translations with materials pertaining to Jabir ibn Ḥayyan and /or Gerber.

BEING REVISED 2007-8
  • Rasā'l- Jabir Ibn Ḥayyān ed. Ahmad Farid al-Mazidi (of Cairo). Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 1427/2006. (608pp.). An important recently printed compendium of Jabir ibn Hayyan treatises.

  • Texts listed in Paul Kraus in 1942 +  additions by Fuat Sezgin in GAL IV: 132-269.
  • Ullmann pp. 198-207
  • Donald R. Hill , 'The Literature of Arabic Alchemy' in Religon, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period, ...( Cambridge: CUP., 1990) pp. 328-341.
  • William Newman, 'New Light on the Identity of "Geber"', Sudhoffs Archiv, 1985, vol. 69, pp. 76-90.

Extracted  and adapted from Paul Kraus (1354/1935+ Rep. 19XX),

  • Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. Essai sur l'histoire des idées scientifiques dans l'Islam. Vol. I. Textes choisis édités par Paul Kraus ("Mukhtār rasā'il Gābir b. Ḥaiyān"). Paris-Le Caire I935/I354.

  • Mukhtār rasā'il Jābir ibn Hayyān, textes arabes éd. par P. Kraus, Paris-Le Caire,  G.P. Maisonneuve.., 1935

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     +  Syed Nomem al-Haq (1994)

    • Names, Natures and Things, The Alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān and his Kitāb al-Ajār (Book of Stones). With a Foreword by David E. Pingree (Brown University) [= Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Volume 158] ed. Robert S. Cohen, Boston University. Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht / Boston / London, 1994

    , and supplemented from other sources  This appendix is being corrected and supplemented 2003-4.

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    Haq, Syed Nomanul.

    • 1994 Names, Natures and Things, The Alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān and his Kitāb al-Ajār (Book of Stones). With a Foreword by David E. Pingree (Brown University) [= Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Volume 158] ed. Robert S. Cohen, Boston University. Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht / Boston / London, 1994.

    Haq, S. Nomanul

    • `Greek alchemy or Shi`i metaphysics? A preliminary statement concerning Jabir ibn Hayyan's Zahir and Batin Language'  in Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies Vol. 4/ii (2002) 19-32.

     

     

    Select Editions of  works of Jabir ibn  Ḥayyān

    Rasa'il Jabir ibn Hayyan

    • Rasā'l- Jabir Ibn Ḥayyān ed. Ahmad Farid al-Mazidi (of Cairo). Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 1427/2006. (608pp.). An important recently printed compendium of Jabir ibn Hayyan treatises.

    (1)  Steele [1892]

    • ADD

    (2)  Berthelot, M. P. E.,

    • Collectzon des anciens alchimistes grecs, edited and translated by Marcellin,  P. E. Berthelot and Charles-Émile Ruelle, 3 vols. (1887-1888; reprint, Osnabrück, 1967).

    • Two of all (?) of these vols. volumes will be superseded by Les alchimistes grecs, 12 vols. (1981-) (E Rel).

    • The third volume is dedicated to Arabic Alchemy and include the text and

    French trans. of several important works of attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyān:

  • Vol. III. = L'alchimie arabe, comprenant une introduction historique et les traités de Cratès, d'el-Habib, d'Ostanès et de Djaber tir és des manuscrits de Paris et de Leyde. Texte et traduction.... Avec la collaboration de O. HOUDAS. Nachdruck der Ausgabe von I893,

  • 2nd printing Osnabrück-Amsterdam: Philo Press I967 =

  • La Chimie au Moyen Age, vol. III, textes arabes éd. par M. Berthelot et O. Houdas, Paris, 1893.  2nd reprinting  Osnabrück, Otto Xellerā.  Amsterdam: Philo Press, 1967.

    • Contents of Berehelot and Houdas 1893, vol. III

    • (i) Kitāb al-mulk (Book of the Dominion, Kr 454)

    • (ii) Kitāb al-rahma  al-saghir (Small Book of Mercy, Kr 969)

    • (iii) Kitāb al-Rahma al-kabir (Great Book of Mercy, Kr 5)

    • (iv) Kitāb al-tajmi' (Book of Concentration, Kr 398)

    • (v) Kitāb al-zibaq al-sharq' (Book of Eastern Mercury, Kr 470)

    • (vi) Kitāb Zibaq al-Gharīz (Book of Western Mercury, Kr 471)

    • (vii) Kitāb al-Nar al-Hajar (Book of the Fire of the Stone, Kr 472)

    • (viii) Kitāb Arḍ al-Hajar (Book of the Earth of the Stone, Kr 473)

    • (ix) Kitāb al-Mawāzīn al-Saghir (Small Book of Balances, Kr 980)

    (3)  Jabir [Gābir], in Holmyard (ed) 1928,

    The Arabic Works of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. edited with translations into English and critical notes by Eric John Holmyard. Vol. I, Part I (Arabic texts). Paris I928 trans. from an Indian lithograph of 1891.

    • (i) Kitāb al-bayān (Book of Elucidation, Kr 785)

    • (ii) Kitāb al-ḥajar (Book of the Stone, Kr 553)

    • (iii) Kitāb al-nur (Book of Light, Kr 17)

    • (iv) Kitāb al-idah (Book of Explication)

    • (v) Kitāb Ustuquss al-Usl  (Book of the Element of Foundation, Kr 6/718)

    • Tafsīr kitāb ust. al-Usl  (Commentary on the Book of the Elem. of Foun., Kr 9)

    • (vi)  Kitāb al-tajrīd (Book of Abstraction, Kr 399)

    • (vii) (S) Kitāb al-manf'a (Book of Utility, Kr 973)

    • (viii) Kitāb al-rahma al-saghir (Small Book of Mercy, Kr 969)

    • (ix)  Kitāb al-malik (Book of the King, Kr 1985)

    (4)  Kraus, 1935, Mukhtār rasā'il. Cairo: 1354.

    Mukhtār rasā'il Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, textes arabes éd. par P. Kraus, Paris-Le Caire, G.P. Maisonneuve... 1935.

    • (i) Kitāb Ikraj mafi'l-quwma ila~l-Fi'l  (Book of the Passage of Potentiality to Actuality) = Kr 331.

    • (ii) Kitāb al-Hudud  (Book of Definitions) = Kr 328)

    • (iii) Kitāb al-Majil  (Book of the Glorious ) = Kr 706)

    • (iv) (S) Kitāb al-Ahidr 'old Ray Balinas (Book of Stones According to the   Opinion of Balinas)  Kr 307/308/310  (First Part / Second Part  / (S)  Fourth Part)

    • (v) (S) Kitāb al-Khawass al-Kabir (Great Book of Properties) = Kr. 1900-1970.

    • First Discourse / Second Discourse / Fifth Discourse / Sixth Discourse / Tenth Discourse / Fifteenth Discourse / Sixteenth Discourse / Seventeenth Discourse / Nineteenth Discourse / Twentieth Discourse / Twenty First Discourse / Twenty Fourth Discourse / Twenty Fifth Discourse / Thirty Second Discourse / Thirty Third Discourse / Thirty Eighth Discourse / Sixty Third Discourse

    • (vi)  (S) Kitāb al-Sirr al-Maknun (Book of the Hidden Secret)  = Kr 389-391.

    • (vii) (S) Kitāb al-Tajmi'  (Book of Concentration) = Kr 398.

    • (viii) (S) Kitāb al-Tasrif  (Book of Morphology) = Kr 404.

    • (ix)  (S) Kitāb al-Mizan al-Saghir (Small Book of Balance) =, Kr 369.

    • (x)  (S) Kitāb al-Sab'in (70 Books, Kr 123-192)

    • (xi)  (S) Kitāb al-Khamsin (Fifty Books), = Kr. 1835-1884.

    • (xii) (S) Kitāb al-Babth (Book of Research) = Kr 1800.

    • (xiii) (S) Kitāb al-Rahib (Book of the Monk) = Kr 630.

    • (xiv) (S) Kitāb al-Hasil (Book of the Result) = Kr 323.

    • (xv)  (S) Kitāb al-Qadim (Book of the Eternal). Kr 981.

    • (xvi) (S) Kitāb al-lshtimal (Book of Comprehensive Understanding)

    (5)  Zirnis [1979] (unpublished):

    • Kitāb Ustuquss al-Uss   (Book of the Element of Foundation) = Kr 61718)

    • Tafsir Kitāb Ust. al-Uss  (Comentary on the Book of the Elem. of Foun.) = Kr 9

    MODERN EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS 257

    (6) Pierre Lory [1988]:

    • [1983] Dix Traite's d'xxxmmic; Les dix premiers Traites du Livre des Soixantc-dix. Paris:  

    • (ed.) [1988] = L 'Elaboration de l'Elixir Supreme: Quatorzc Traites de Gabir Ibn Hayyan sur k Granl (Euvrc Akbimiquc. Damascus

    • (S) Kitāb al-Sab'in (IBEX Books) = Kr 123-192.

    • Kitāb al-Lahut (Book of Divinity) = Kr 123.

    • Kitab al-Bad (Book of Operation) = Kr 124.

    • Kitāb al-Thalithin Kal`'na (Book of Thirty Words) = Kr 125.

    • Kitāb al-Muna (Book of Desire), Kr 126.

    • Kitāb al-Huda (Book of Guidance) = Kr 127.

    • Kitāb al-Sifat (Book of Attributes)=  Kr 128.

    • Kitāb 'Ashara (Book of the Ten) = Kr 129.

    • Kitāb al-Nu'ut (Book of Epithets) = Kr 130)

    • Kitāb al-'Ahd (Book of the Pact)= Kr 131

    • Kitāb al-Sab'a (Book of the Seven) =, Kr 132

    • Kitāb Tadbir al-Aridn wa'l-Usul (Book of the Treatment of Elements and Principles)*

    • Kitāb Hatk al-Asrar (Book of the Discovery of Secrets) =, Kr 972

    • Kitāb al-Saf (Book of the Pure). Kr 640.

    English Translations

    • (1) Stede [189X):  Kitāb Hatk al-Asrar (Book of the Discovery of Secrets, Kr 972)

    • (2) Z~is [1979] (unpublished):  Kitāb Ustuquss al-Use (Book of the Element of Foundation) = Kr 61718.  1

    • Their Kitāb Ust. al-Use (Comentary on the Book of the Elem. of Foun.,)=  Kr 9.

    French Translations

          (1) Berethelot arid Houdas [1893], vol. III:

    • (i) Kitāb al-Mulk (Book of the Dominion, Kr 454)

    • (ii) Kitāb al-Rahma al-Saghir (Small Book of Mercy, Kr 969)

    • (iii) Kitāb al-Rahma al-Kabir (Great Book of Mercy, Kr 5)

    • (iv) Kitāb al-Tajmi' (Book of Concentration, Kr 398)

    • (v) Kitāb al-Zibaq al-Sharyi (Book of Eastern Mercury, Kr 470)

    • (vi) Kitāb Zibaq al-Gharbi (Book of Western Mercury, Kr 471)-

  • * This work is not listed in the census of Kraus [1') 42-3].

    Henri Corbin trans.
    • 1950     "Le livre du glorieux de Jābir ibn ayyān," Eranos-Jahrbuch, 1950, 18, 47.

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    FURTHER BIBLIOGRAPHY RELATING TO JABIR IBN HAYYAN

    Haq, Syed Nomanul.

    • 1994 Names, Natures and Things, The Alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān and his Kitāb al-Ajār (Book of Stones). With a Foreword by David E. Pingree (Brown University) [= Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Volume 158] ed. Robert S. Cohen, Boston University. Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht / Boston / London, 1994.

    Haq, S. Nomanul

    • `Greek alchemy or Shi`i metaphysics? A preliminary statement concerning Jabir ibn Hayyan's Zahir and Batin Language'  in Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies Vol. 4/ii (2002) 19-32.

    El-Eswed, Basim I., 

    • `Spirits: The Reactive Substances in Jabir's Alchemy' in Arabic Science and Philosophy vol. 16 (2006), 71-90.

    Holymyard, Eric J.

    • 1922 "Jabir ibn Hayyan," Procecdings of the Royal Socicty of Medicine (Section on the History of Medicine), 1922, 16, 1, 46.

    Lory, P.

    • 1983 Dix Traite's d'akbimic; Les dix premiers Traites du Livrc des Soixantc-dix. Paris: 1983.

    • ed

    .  [1988] L 'Elaboration de l'E 6xtr Supremc: Quatorzc Traites dc Gabir 1bn Hayyan sur k Granl (Euvrc Akbimiquc. Damascus: 1988.

    Newman, W.R.

    • 1985 "New Light on the Identity of `Geber',"  Sudho/fs Archiv, 1982, 69, 1, 76.

    • Summa `The Genesis of the Summa Perfectionis,  Appendix, Archiv Internationales d 'Histoire des Sciences, 1985, 35, 114-115, 301.

    • 1991 The Summa Periectionis of Pseudo-Geber. Leiden: 1991.

    Gābir, Das Buch der Giftes. Gābir, K. as-Sumām.

    Gābir, ed. Holmyard =

    • The Arabic Works of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. Edited with translations into English and critical notes by Eric John Holmyard. Vol. I, Part I (Arabic texts). Paris I928.

    Jābir/Gābir,

  • K. as-Sumām = Das Buch der Gifte des Gābir ibn Hayyān. Arabischer Text in Faksimile (Hs. Taymur, Tibb 393, Kairo). Ubers. u. erläutert von Alfred SIGGEL. Wiesbaden I958 (Akademie der Wissenschaften u. der Literatur, Veröffentlichungen der orientalischen Kommission XII).
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