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Title

Splendor solis oder Sonnen Glantz

Authors

• Trismosin, Salomon

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 108
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915804503503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122470194
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580450

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

German

Origin

Date

between 1550 and 1599

Place

Germany

Summary

Alchemical treatise about the philosophers' stone divided into seven "tracts."

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r). Full title on f. 1r: Das gegenwürtige Buch wirt genannt Splendor solis oder Sonnen glantz tailt inn Siben Tractat durch welches becschriben wirt die kunstlich Würkhung des verborgnen Stains der Alten Weisen....
   
• Incipit and explicit: (f. 2r) Vorrede dises Buechs. Alphidius einer der Alten Weisen ... (f. 41v) so die alten weÿsen Inn der Kunst Gerwurcket haben. &c. Ende.
   
• No illustrations, though many may have been intended. Descriptions of intended illustrations written in contemporary cursive on blank pages.
   
• Cover boards slightly warped. Binding pulling apart; first quire almost completely detached.
   
• Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
   

Extent

41 leaves : 306 x 200 mm. bound to 313 x 205 mm

Collation

Parchment, i (paper) + 41 + i (paper); 1-9⁴, 10⁴(+1); 1-34, [i], 35-40; contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

16th-century German vellum over pasteboards, with remnants of green fabric ties.

Script

Written in a late Gothic bookhand.

Provenance

• Acquired, 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, German--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• German
• Germany
• Treatise
• Alchemy

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