Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Opera del sapientissimo Ermete Trismegisto della generatione del lapide con l'espositione di Moise, Primate Hebreo, tradotta dal latino

Authors

• Hermes, Trismegistus

Call number

Ms. Codex 504
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580938
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580938

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Italy

Summary

Philosophical and alchemical text in 72 chapters, headed with Roman numerals.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit: Tutte le forme motrici, e mosse, ò generate, ò incorrotte honorano Iddio, eterno Creatore ... (f. 2r).
   
• "L'original di questo si trova nella grandissima libraria dell' Ser. Imperator Federico Terzo."
   

Extent

34 leaves : 292 x 215 (227 x 158) mm. bound to 298 x 228 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (modern paper) + 34 + iii (modern paper); 1-34; later foliation in ink, bottom center recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th[?]-century quarter leather.

Decoration

Drawings of chemical apparatus (f. 18r, f. 21r).

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 18r — Diagram, Alchemical apparatus, f. 18r
• fol. 21r — Diagram, Alchemical apparatus, f. 21r