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Title

Alchemical miscellany

Authors

• Basilius Valentinus
• Paracelsus, 1493-1541
• König, Emanuel, 1658-1731
• Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715

Call number

Ms. Codex 112
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580493
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580493

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin, with some Italian in the entries at the end of the manuscript (f. 31r-36v)

Origin

Date

between 1675 and 1725

Place

Italy

Summary

Alchemical miscellany, primarily consisting of summaries of and excerpts from the Triumph-Wagen Antimonii of Basilius Valentinus; Archidoxa of Paracelsus; and Regnum minerale (Parts II (De metallis), III (De lapidibus), IV (De salibus, sulphuribus, terris), and Appendix (De aquis)) of Emanuel König, but also containing recipes and other texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Paper is split at edges and is brittle. Paper also shows some damage that appears to be due to acid in the ink. Some stains on the paper and the cover.
   
• Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
   

Extent

36 leaves : 280 x 178 mm. bound to 288 x 190 mm

Collation

Paper, 36; 1¹⁴ 2³²(-16) 3⁴ + 2 single leaves; [1-36]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 31-36 tipped in, with stubs for f. 31-33, 35 on far side of sewing; first 16 folios of second gathering have been cut out, with loss of a great deal of text.

Support

Paper

Binding

17th-century Italian pasteboards; very fragile; quires not bound into pasteboard cover and mostly detached from each other.

Script

Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Acquired, 1948.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--History

Genres

• Codices
• Abridgements
• Excerpts
• Recipes
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Recipes, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Selection from Currus triumphalis, f. 3r
• fol. 10r — Abridged selections from Archidoxa, f. 10r
• fol. 15r — Abridged selections from Regnum minerale, f. 15r
• fol. 31r — Selection from one of the later treatises of Nicolas Lemery, f. 31r
• fol. 31v — Recipes, f. 31v