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Title

Liber mirabilium

Authors

• Hermes, Trismegistus
• Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295
• Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311
• Petrus, Hispanus

Other related names

• Sandei, Jeronimus de, 15th cent, scribe

Call number

LJS 500
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959136703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/829111893
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5913670

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1452-1455

Place

Piran

Summary

Alchemical and medical compendium containing recipes and texts from a variety of sources, many of which appear with traditional (now suspect) attributions in other manuscripts, with an alphabetical index to recipes at the beginning of the volume. Occasional manicules and annotations added by readers.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from closing rubric (f. 98v).
   

Extent

100 leaves : 204 x 143 (146 x 88) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm

Collation

Parchment, i (modern paper) + 100 + i (modern paper); 1² 2⁶ 3-7¹⁶ 8¹²; every tenth leaf foliated in pencil, lower right recto. Horizontal catchwords with decorative dots, lower center of last verso in gatherings 3-7 (f. 24v, 40v, 56v, 72v, 88v).

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern parchment.

Layout

Written in 32-33 long lines; frame-ruled in lead, vertical bounding lines.

Decoration

Opening page of text illuminated with a 10-line historiated initial enclosing a picture of Hermes Trismegistus on gold ground and a three-quarters border of acanthus leaves (border at top slightly trimmed) including the Sandei arms (blue lion rampant) at the bottom of the page (f. 9r); 2 historiated initials in red with blue penwork and the blue lion of the Sandei arms (f. 6r, 39r); 5- and 6-line initials in red with blue penwork or blue with red penwork at the beginning of some component works (f. 13r, 39r, 61v, 96r); 2-line to 5-line initials (a single 7-line initial, f. 87v) in red with blue penwork (faded purple penwork in index) or blue with red penwork throughout; 1-line initials alternating between red and blue and paragraph marks alternating between red and blue throughout. Occasional manicules, mostly by a single reader (f. 13v, 15v, 17v, 18r, 27v, 30v, 31r, 48r; f. 75v, 83v by additional readers).

Script

Written in semi-cursive humanistic script by multiple hands, including that of Jeronimus de Sandei of Piran (f. 98v).

Provenance

• Offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 2012, lot 19; sold privately to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2012.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Recipe book
• Alchemy
• Slovenia
• Slovene

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tabula huius libri ad reperiendum capitula, f. 1r
• fol. 9r — De transmutatione metallorum, f. 9r
• fol. 13r — Selections from De virtutibus, f. 13r
• fol. 39r — Epistola de sanguine, f. 39r
• fol. 46r — Medical recipes, f. 46r
• fol. 51r — Liber de aquis, f. 51r
• fol. 61v — Epistola, f. 61v
• fol. 63r — Household preparations, f. 63r
• fol. 96r — Vita remedia et ordo servandus tempore pestilentie, f. 96r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial B, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 3v
• fol. 3v — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial, Initial G, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 4v
• fol. 4v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Manicule, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 6r
• fol. 6r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 6r
• fol. 6r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 6r
• fol. 6r — Manicule, f. 6r
• fol. 7r — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 7r
• fol. 7r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Historiated initial, Initial P, Hermes Trismegistus, f. 9r
• fol. 9r — Illuminated border, f. 9r
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 10r
• fol. 10r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 10r
• fol. 10v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 10v
• fol. 10v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 10v
• fol. 11r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 11r
• fol. 11r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 11r
• fol. 11r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 11v
• fol. 13r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 13v
• fol. 13v — Manicule, f. 13v
• fol. 14v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 14v
• fol. 15v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 15v
• fol. 15v — Manicule, f. 15v
• fol. 16v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 16v
• fol. 17v — Manicule, f. 17v
• fol. 18r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 18r
• fol. 18r — Manicule, f. 18r
• fol. 20v — Manicule, f. 20v
• fol. 27v — Manicule, f. 27v
• fol. 29r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 29r
• fol. 30v — Manicule, f. 30v
• fol. 31r — Manicule, f. 31r
• fol. 34v — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 34v
• fol. 39r — Historiated initial, Initial Q, Blue lion, f. 39r
• fol. 48r — Manicule, f. 48r
• fol. 61r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 61r
• fol. 61v — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 61v
• fol. 75v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 75v
• fol. 75v — Manicule, f. 75v
• fol. 77r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 77r
• fol. 79r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 79r
• fol. 79v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 79v
• fol. 83v — Manicule, f. 83v
• fol. 85v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 85v
• fol. 87v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 87v
• fol. 90r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 90r
• fol. 96r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 96r
• fol. 98v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 98v