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Title

Scielta delle pratiche piu degne dell'una et l'altra medicina divisa in III parte, nelle quali si tratta non solo delle medine sic interne, ma anco delle esterne et delle sic qualità de forni, vasi, et fuochi, che per estrahere acque, olii, varie essenze et tinture ...

Call number

Ms. Codex 116
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580514
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580514

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1650

Place

Italy

Summary

Treatise on medicine and laboratory experiments. In three parts.

Notes

• Title from title page (recto of fourth unnumbered folio at beginning)and from Zacour-Hirsch.
   
• Heading of first part: Delle vere medicine spagiriche (recto of seventh unnumbered folio at beginning).
   
• Incipit and explicit: (p. 1, first numbered section) L'arte spagirica tanto necessaria per le preparatione ... (p. 50, second numbered section) et compositione delle vere medicine. Il fine.
   
• Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
   

Watermark

Contains the initials G. N.

Extent

297 leaves : 302 x 209 (185 x 130) mm. bound to 313 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii + 291 + iii; [viii], 1-421, [i], 422-521,[ii], 1-50, [iii unnumbered folios]. Contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Existing page numbers used in description. Catchwords in lower right corner of each page.

Support

Paper

Binding

17th-century Italian limp vellum. Paper weakened and discolored throughout by oxidation of ink.

Decoration

Part 3 (p. 1-50, second paginated section) illustrated with 45 pen-and-ink drawings of chemical instruments and experiments; pen-and-ink signet drawing of a bird on a pyre (possibly the phoenix) surrounded by the motto, "Per rinovar me al / fuoco mi consumo" (p. 50, second paginated section).

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the Strozzi family (stamp, f. i recto).
   
• Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1951.
   

Subjects topical

• Chemical laboratories
• Chemistry--History
• Laboratories--Furniture, equipment, etc
• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Research

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• 285 — Drawing, p. 285