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Title

Alchemical treatise

Call number

Ms. Codex 508
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580945
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580945

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German and Rhaeto-Roman

Origin

Date

1737

Place

Switzerland

Summary

A collection of alchemical preparations, written in black ink with red ink used for headings and for some symbols, margins ruled in red ink. For the title as well as for the name of substances the writer used secret ciphers. Also includes a section of medical recipes in the Ladin language.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

78 leaves : 168 x 126 (125 x 105) mm. bound to 175 x 134 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 78 + i (contemporary paper); [1-78]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary sheepskin.

Decoration

Pen and ink drawings of alchemical apparatus (f. 7v, f. 15v, f. 21r, f. 24v, f. 56v), with smaller drawings at other locations in the text.

Script

Written in a cursive script by what appears to be one hand, including appendices.

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--History
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, German--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Alchemical preparations, f. 2r
• fol. 60r — Explicatio verborum, f. 60r
• fol. 63v — Signa Chy?micorum, f. 63v
• fol. 70r — Unguentum contra venicas manuum, f. 70r

Decorations

• fol. 7v — Diagram, f. 7v
• fol. 15v — Diagram, f. 15v
• fol. 21r — Diagram, f. 21r
• fol. 22v — Diagram, f. 22v
• fol. 24v — Diagram, f. 24v
• fol. 27v — Diagram, f. 27v
• fol. 32v — Diagram, f. 32v
• fol. 53v — Diagram, f. 53v
• fol. 54r — Diagram, f. 54r
• fol. 55r — Diagram, f. 55r
• fol. 55v — Diagram, f. 55v
• fol. 56v — Diagram, f. 56v