An alembic or still-head (lower illustration) and a metal alembic with boiling vessel, illustrated in the margins of a copy of Sharḥ Shudhūr al-dhahab, a commentary by Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Anṣārī on an alchemical-allegorical set of poems by his teacher Ibn Arfa‘ Ra’s (d. 1197/593). The copy was completed in Jumadá I 1123 (March-April 1712) by the copyist Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muṣṭafá al-Anṭākī al-Istanbūlī al-Ḥanafī.