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Title

Collegium chymica.

Authors

• Towneley, John, -1704
• Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund

Call number

Ms. Codex 1644
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959807093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/877013658
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3rj48v1v http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281 https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/111/ http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000256

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1681

Place

Leiden

Summary

Chemical manuscript with instructions for preparing several hundred substances, both pharmaceutical and alchemical. Entries for a few preparations include references to earlier authorities such as Paracelsus, Ruland, and Glauber. The entries in an alphabetical index in two columns at the end of the volume appear to be in Towneley's hand and to cover the whole volume, but page numbers were added later, both to the manuscript and to the index, only through 194.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 1).
   

Extent

128 leaves : 210 x 158 (136-155 x 105-110) mm bound to 224 x 175 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (19th-century) + 128 leaves + i (19th century); [i-ii], 1-100, 100, 100-175, 178-179, 176-194, [195-250]; early foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century calf, blind-tooled, gilt spine title.

Script

Written in cursive script by John Towneley.

Provenance

• Sold by Samuel Gedge Rare Books, catalogue 15 (2013), item 122.
   
• Offered for sale at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge among the manuscripts of Towneley Hall, 27-28 June 1883, lot 139 (label on spine).
   

Subjects topical

• Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden
• Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden--History--17th century
• Chemistry--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry
• History
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, European
• Lecture notes
• Prescriptions
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Codices

Keywords

• 17th century
• English
• Netherlands
• Paper
• Alchemy
• Science -- Medicine

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