Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Segreti :

Authors

• Medici, Antonio de', 1576-1621
• Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Teniers, David, 1610-1690, artist (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059287)
• Couché, François-Louis, 1782-1849, engraver (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97848744)

Call number

LJS 448
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958031613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802345472
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with occasional passages in Latin

Origin

Date

1614

Place

Florence

Summary

Extensive collection of alchemical and medical recipes copied and compiled by Antonio de' Medici over a number of years, written on paper of widely varying dimensions. Many items were posted to the compiler and therefore display folds, addresses, and remnants of seals. One such item is a recipe for erections from Giambattista della Porta (f. 100r-103v), posted from Naples. Other areas of interest represented in the collection include glassmaking, magnets, and astrology (horoscope for a birth date in August 1576, probably for Antonio de' Medici, f. 109v). Some leaves previously very fragile due to oxidation; treatment completed in 2023 (Steven Miller Conservation Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania Libraries).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 3r).
   

Extent

368 leaves : 106-290 x 70-205 mm bound to 320 x 235 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (18th-century paper) + 368 + i (18th-century paper); earlier pagination in pencil only on pages with writing, upper outer corners; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto, [1-368]. References in this record are to foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (early 17th-century) heavy cartonato; ink title on spine abraded and illegible; pastedown and flyleaf inside each cover formed from a printed leaf from the geographical index of Lodovico Antonio Muratori's Rerum italicarum scriptores, published in Milan in multiple volumes from 1723 to 1751.

Script

Written in cursive script, by the hand of Antonio de' Medici and many others.

Provenance

• Sold by Martayan Lan (New York) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, May 2002.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• seals (marks)
• Engravings
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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