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Title

Alchemical miscellany

Other related names

• Styleman-le Strange, Hamon, former owner
• Madan, Falconer, former owner
• Voynich, W. M, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 110
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915804523503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903184
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580452

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1450

Place

England?

Summary

Collection of four works concerning alchemy by Roger Bacon, Morienus Romanus (apocryphal), Geber (i.e., Jābir ibn Ḥayyān), and Avicenna. Includes an index to the volume that is incomplete and badly damaged.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• The edges of most folios are slightly torn and split. There is evidence of water and mildew damage. The last four folios are badly damaged, with loss of text; extensive repairs have been done on the paper.
   
• Two autograph notes (front flyleaf ii recto): 1.) Haymon Styleman-le Strange, indicating that the manuscript was bound in October 1871; 2.) Falconer Mandan, dated 1 December 1892, identifying the first text.
   
• Typescript table of contents included (front flyleaf i verso).
   
• Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
   

Watermark

Visible in gutter, but not legible enough for identification.

Extent

54 leaves : 298 x 196 (227 x 150) mm. bound to 306 x 207 mm

Collation

Paper, ii (modern paper) + 50 + ii (modern paper); 1-3¹², 4¹⁶ (-2); 1-50; contemporary foliation in ink, with roman numerals preceded by quire letter (e.g., bxvii = f. 17, in quire 2), lower right recto, many trimmed away; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords in lower margin, last verso of each quire.

Signatures

Quires given letters a-d.

Support

Paper

Binding

Half morocco; England, 1871 (front flyleaf ii recto).

Decoration

A few initials in red.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script, with marginalia written in various hands.

Provenance

• Hamon Styleman-le Strange (signature, flyleaf ii recto); Falconer Madan (signature, flyleaf ii recto); W. M. Voynich (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Acquired, 1922.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--History--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Science
• Alchemy
• English
• England
• History
• Paper

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tractatus trium verborum, f. 1r
• fol. 10r — Quaestiones inter Kalid regem et Morienum philosophum, f. 10r
• fol. 13v — Summa perfectionis magisterii, f. 13v
• fol. 42v — De anima, f. 42v
• fol. 50r — Index, f. 50r

Decorations

• fol. 7v — Manicule, f. 7v
• fol. 11v — Manicule, f. 11v