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Title

Recipes and extracts on alchemy, medicine, metal-working, cosmetics, veterinary science, agriculture, wine-making, and other subjects

Other related names

• Ritman, Joost R., former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013058385.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Othmer MS 1
(Philadelphia, Science History Institute, Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History)

Publisher

Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Bergamo?, Milan?, Pavia?, Como?, Northwestern Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains a recipe collection with more than 520 different recipes on topics ranging from alchemy and medicine to solutions for simple household problems such as fleas, with an extensive alphabetical index.

Notes

• Secreti naturali in ink on lower edge of book block. Fol. 94, A blank leaf from quire nine, is glued at the beginning. 2-90, 92-93, 95-103, Are the leaves present. wanting outermost bifolium of first quire, and five leaves from quire eight, three of which were likely blank.Quire i is missing leaves 1 and 10, with loss of text. Quire 8 is missing the 2nd leaf, after fol. 84, the 5th, after fol. 86, and leaves 10, 11, 12, [which were most likely cancelled blanks]
   
• Worming and slight staining on some leaves
   

Watermark

Flower with eight petals, Briquet 6592 (Bergamo 1430, Milan 1434, Palermo 1434, Lucca 1440, Bergamo 1442), Online Piccard 126713 (o.O. 1436), cf. also Online Piccard 126702 (Como 1428), Online Piccard 126708 (o.O. 1443), Online Piccard 126711 (Pavia 1447 etc.), Online Piccard 126713 (Germasino 1427)

Extent

101; 210 x 148 mm bound to 210 x 145 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in ink, upper outer corner recto; inconsistent modern foliation in pencil

Collation

1 (12, -10), 2-7 (12), 8 (12, -2 -10 -11 -12), 9 (12, -1 +1 -3 +10)

Signatures

Some leaf and quire signatures outer corner verso with a letter designating the quire and an Arabic numeral the leaf; folios have been cut

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords center lower margin

Binding

Contemporary red leather over wooden boards, cut flush with the book block, front and back covers decorated with nails, remains of large brass clasp decorated with foliage on back board

Layout

Two columns of thirty lines; ruled in ink with full-length single vertical bounding lines in hard point; written area: 148 x 109 mm

Decoration

Each entry numbered in the margin in red Arabic numerals; red paragraph marks and red two-line initials throughout; sketches by later hand(s) on fols. 90v-94v, 101v-103v: on fol. 90v a crowned globe with an animal inside lettered "m" "s" at the top, and other drawings, apparently unfinished, related to this on fols. 102v-103r, fol. 92v, a figure with a long nose and hat, and a mounted figure in dots, fol. 102v, word square, fol. 103r, figure, labeled "madalena"

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Belonged to Antonio "il gual"; his seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century ownership inscriptions on fols. 102v and 103v; owners' and dealers' notes, in pencil, fol. 103v, "cat. Tenschert, Leuct. Mittelalter I, no. 17, BPH 112," "10090/U6FET," inside back cover, "REE," "8409 BPH MS 112," and "W 12;" belonged to Joost R. Ritman (b. 1941), the Dutch businessman and collector of art and books; acquired from Tenschert cat. 21 (Leuchtendes Mittelalter I), 1989, no. 17; Bibliotheca Philosophia Hermetica MS 112 (bookplate, inside front cover); briefly described in Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (Online Resources)
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Alchemy
• Science -- Medicine
• Science
• Recipe book

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Recipes, arranged in 520 numbered sections; incipit: est plumbum bene purificatum quod operator ad a[ur]um faciendum de quo superius fecimus mencionem
• fol. 95r — Tabula receptorum omnium que continentur in isto libro per alfabetum; incipit: In primis ad faciendum acetum bonum
• fol. 102r — Added Text; incipit: Ut erugo et balcula recedant de arbore vel de orto scribe hoc Carmen dauid in carta et liga super arborem ubi sint