كليدواژه :
ميناي زرين فام , الدرّه المكنونه , جابربن حيان , شيشه ي دوران اسلامي , نسخه ي خطي , نقاشي شيشه و سفال
چكيده لاتين :
The first manuscript which has been identified in the technology of making luster glaze (enamel) is
the book Arayes al-Javaher. This book was compiled by Abulqasim Abdullah Kashani in 700 AH and
was very effective in making the luster glaze at that time, and introduced for the first time to the
world in 1313 AD. The book Javaher Name-ye- Nezami was then introduced as the oldest and most
detailed historical written document on the luster glaze, where more than 26 luster formulas have
been included in the book. This valuable book was compiled in 592 AH by Mohammad ibn Abi alBarakat Neyshabouri. Previously, it was believed that Javaher Name-ye- Nezami is the oldest written
document on the luster enamel. But, the emergence of book of Jaber ibn Hayan, called al-Durra alMeknuna in recent years, by Ahmad Yusof Alhasan, revealed correctly how the father of chemistry,
Jaber, deals with luster enamel formulas. He was undoubtedly the source of chemical knowledge for
other scholars in later centuries .It is very important that the emergence of glass in the second
century was coincided with the emergence of the painted luster glass. At the moment, the
manuscript al-Durra al-Meknuna was the oldest written document on golden-colored paintings
(luster enamel), where it had widespread formulas in this field. This book also contains more
formulas about the luster enamels than other historical books and can be important in terms of the
origin and nature of the luster -plated technique. The treatise can be divided into four main themes.
The first is on the manufacture of coloured glass. The second is on lustre painting of glass and the
third is on the colouring of gemstones with descriptions of two furnaces for this purpose. The last
one is concerned with the treatment of pearls and gives recipes for glues and other related
materials. On the other hand, the treatise contains 118 recipes for talawih (lustre painting of glass),
in addition to nine recipes inserted by the editor, al-Marrakishi. However, other books have limited
number of formulas, for instance, Arayes Aljvaher and Javaher Name-ye- Nezami have two and thirty
formulas, respectively. In a typical process described in the book, metallic ingredients, mainly burnt
silver, burnt copper or copper compounds, iron and its compounds and cobalt blue, plus other
materials such as cinnabar, magnesia, realgar, orpiment, sulphur, and vitriol, are pulverised
individually in vinegar or citron juice and mixed together. Glass articles such as cups are painted
and decorated by the colouring mixture and are then introduced into the smoke chamber in the
oven. When the cups become black, they are withdrawn and allowed to cool. Then, they are washed
until the colour appears, while by introducing them again into the fire, the colour intensifies and
changes. Sometimes they are introduced into the fire once again and the colour becomes brighter.
The furnace designed in the book is a type of traditional wood burning stoves, where it has four
shafts and a fireplace chamber. Inside it, there is a relatively large chamber for the arrangement of
ceramic products. In the upper part, there is a circular door that houses the entrance and exit of the
furnace to arrange the products. This kind of furnace has been widely used in most regions of Iran.
In relation to the term “Zarrin fam,” various items have been mentioned in the literature such as
glaze, enamel, ink, talawih, luster, gold glaze, felez fam (metal fam), but in this research, the term
“enamel” has been used. The book “al Durra al-Meknuna” has several formulas, so it is
recommended that these formulas to be tested on glass and glaze in the future.
