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

Title

Excerpts from alchemical and philosophical works

Authors

• Barrett, George
• Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694

Other related names

• Folliott, George, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 783
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2705011
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2705011

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1680

Place

Great Britain

Summary

Excerpts, notes, or lecture notes on philosophical subjects written in a blank book, the first section has no heading but appears to be alchemical.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Attribution or ownership and date on final leaf: George Barrett his Book: 1680.
   
• Incipit for first work: Chimia est ars corpora naturalia (f. 1r).
   

Extent

120 leaves : 177 x 106 (162 x 99) mm. bound to 183 x 120 mm

Foliation

Paper, 120; [ii], [1-118] modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by George Folliott (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Zamboni & Huntington (Palo Alto, Cali.), 1992.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--Early works to 1800
• Ethics--Early works to 1800
• Logic--Early works to 1800
• Metaphysics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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