Collection ID: 0025 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Opera, including Lucidarium artis transmutationis metallorum; extracts from the Sommeta and Violetta; and Epistola

Authors

• Christophorus Parisiensis (http://viaf.org/viaf/27456310/)

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 8
(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

Italian; Latin

Origin

Place

Palermo, Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains a collection of alchemical texts with copious notes and annotations in the margins.

Notes

• Texts are complete, but now missing 72 leaves at the beginning
   
• First quire's structure is uncertain, Quire six leaves 15 and 16 are missing but final text is complete, probably cancelled with no loss
   

Watermark

Undetermined type (a balance within a circle accompanied by letters?)

Extent

Iiii+85+iii; 200 x 147 mm bound to 206 x 160 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in ink, Arabic numerals top outer corner recto [73], 74-152 [153-157]; modern foliation in pencil top outer corner recto

Collation

1 (7, +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7), 2-5 (16), 6 (16, -15 -16)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords almost completely hidden in the gutter

Binding

Previously bound in plain paper covers (bound in); now bound in nineteenth-century half red leather, covers tooled with simple gilt triple fillets, spine with four raised bands forming compartments with elaborate gilt filigree, and title, "Transmutation De' Mettalli./MS.," marbled endpapers

Layout

Apparently frame-ruled in lead or crayon, rarely visible, with full-length vertical bounding lines only; written area: 155-170 x 80-85 mm; 28-31 long lines

Decoration

Extensive annotations by later readers; manicules throughout in ink and red crayon; multiple blank spaces left for initials, some with guide words (e.g., fol. 39v)

Script

Humanistic

Colophon

Scriptum panhommi die xxiiii nouembris prime indictione 1557

Provenance

• In Venice in 1626, ex libris note fol. 1 (overwritten and difficult to interpret), and lower margin, and original front flyleaf, ii: G<?> B<?> Cappulamo; Signs of earlier ownership or sales include, front flyleaf, iii (original paper cover), "500"; "1020" in red, and "22"; These texts were presumably removed from a larger work at the time of its nineteenth-century rebinding; traces of earlier foliation remains indicating that the first seventy-two folios are now lacking; Note that since all the texts included here are complete, and since the major works by Christopher of Paris are represented, the texts removed were likely by a different author; Belonged to Joost R. Ritman (b. 1941), the Dutch businessman and distinguished collector of art and books; acquired in Venice circa 2001 according to the library's cataloguing notes, although the brief description in Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections records its acquisition in 1990; Bibliotheca Philosophia Hermetica MS 209 (bookplate, inside front cover)
   

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Science
• Annotated
• Manicules
• Treatise

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Lucidarium artis transmutationis metallorum; incipit: A poy multa consideracione lucidissima mete ho compositio et senza
• fol. 59r — Summeta; incipit: E inpedimento che per sua natura inpedisse questo preciosissima scientia
• fol. 79r — Violetta; incipit: Si lo excelo et glorioso idio benigno et piatoso ali mei desiderii hauendo yo dillectissimo figlolo uulgari zatoui questa arte
• fol. 84r — Epistola; incipit: Figlolo amantissimo per la mia ultima lettera a uui diretta me doleua assai, che non havevi hauuto lauorante