Collection ID: 0029 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Lapis philosophorum

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MSS 95, Item 18
(Newark, DE, United States, University of Delaware Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://delcat.worldcat.org/oclc/40187306

Publisher

University of Delaware Library

Language

Italian

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This paper manuscript in Italian contains a text entitled "Lapis philosophorum," or On the philosopher's stone.

Notes

• A note added on unnumbered folio i recto mentions the 25 of April 1586
   
• Unnumbered folio i is integral to the first quire
   

Extent

I+76+i; 206 x 133 mm bound to 212 x 140 mm

Foliation

Original foliation in ink, upper right recto

Collation

1 (10), 2 (12), 3-4 (20), 5 (15, +1)

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern calf over pasteboards; scraps of printed material visible under upper and lower pastedowns

Layout

One column of twenty to twenty-two lines, not ruled; written area: 180 x 124

Script

Early modern cursive

Keywords

• 16th century
• 17th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Alchemy
• Science

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• Unnumbered recto i — Ownership note
• Unnumbered recto i — Ownership note dated 25 April 1586
• Unnumbered verso i — Content notes
• fol. 1r — Lapis Philosophorum; incipit: Prende del miglior vino vermiglia che si possa havere... [fol. 1r]; explicit: ...et è già determinata e finita [fol. 74v]
• fol. 75r — Medicinal notes
• fol. 75v — Medicinal notes