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Persian-born scholar ˤIzz ad-Dīn al-Ğaldakī “was one of the greatest of medieval alchemists,” says Bologna, Italy–based dealer Giuseppe Solmi, who is bringing al-Ğaldakī’s Mamluk-era book on the cultivation of gold and other metals to the Antiquarian Book Fair in Stuttgart this month. Dated AH 900 (1494–95), the 167-leaf alchemical treatise was likely penned in Egypt, where al-Ǧaldakī eventually settled. giuseppesolmi.it