Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 448: Segreti : University of Pennsylvania 2024-02-23 2024-02-23 These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 448: Segreti : are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Manuscripts has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 448: Segreti :. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Ms. codex. Title from title page (f. 3r). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 448 9958031613503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802345472 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 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). Italian, with occasional passages in Latin Segreti : Medici, Antonio de', 1576-1621 Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615 Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) artist Teniers, David, 1610-1690 engraver Couché, François-Louis, 1782-1849

paper

 368 leaves : 106-290 x 70-205 mm bound to 320 x 235 mm 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. Written in cursive script, by the hand of Antonio de' Medici and many others.

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.

Collected in Florence in 1614 (title page, f. 3r); component items written in various Italian cities with dates of 1608 (f. 176v); 1610 (f. 180v), 1612 (Giambattista della Porta recipe, f. 102r), 1613 (f. 2r, 22r, 218r, 222v, 226v, 253r, 355r), and 1614 (f. 38r, 69r, 134r).

1614 Florence 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. Alchemy--Early works to 1800 Alchemy Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800 Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions codices (bound manuscripts) diagrams seals (marks) Engravings Recipes Manuscripts, Italian--17th century Manuscripts, European