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PROF. RUSKA'S erudition is equalled only by his energy. He has now followed up his monograph on Chalid ibn Jazid (see NATURE, September 20, 1924, p. 427) with an interesting and important memoir on Ja'far al-Sadiq, the sixth Imam. Included in the memoir are the text and a translation (with full notes) of an alchemical treatise falsely attributed to Ja'far, the “Book of the Letter of Ja'far al-Sadiq on the Knowledge of the Art and of the Noble Stone.”The text is a facsimile of MS. A. 1292 at Gotha, and is supplemented by additions and variations from a manuscript in the Library at Rampur.
Arabische Alchemisten. Von Julius Ruska. 2: &Gacute;a'far al-Sdiq, der sechste Imm. Mit einer Nachbildung der Handschrift Gotha A. 1292 (Haleb 338) in Manuldruck.
(Heidelberger akten der Von-Portheim-Stiftung, Heft 10.) Pp. 128 + 62. (Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1924.) 7.20 gold marks.
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H., E. Arabische Alchemisten. Von Julius Ruska. 2: &Gacute;a'far al-Sdiq, der sechste Imm. Mit einer Nachbildung der Handschrift Gotha A. 1292 (Haleb 338) in Manuldruck. Nature 116, 44 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116044a0
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