Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

La chimie, couleurs, parfumerie

Call number

Ms. Codex 113
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915805113503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122630908
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580511

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

French

Origin

Date

15--

Place

France

Summary

Collection of recipes and instructions for making colors, perfumes, soap, dyes, engraving, illuminating, making marble paper, making mirrors, preserving wine, etc. Contains over 200 different recipes and instructions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine. Title in Zacour-Hirsch is "Kunstbuechlein."
   
• Incipit and explicit: (p. 1) Contre faire une croix de corail ... (p. 65) lespace d'une heure.
   
• Writing on left-hand page goes into the gutter, suggesting that the manuscript was bound after it was written.
   
• Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
   

Extent

35 leaves : 173 x 115 mm. bound to 182 x 117 mm

Collation

Paper, ii (17th-century paper) + 35 + ii (17th-century paper); [i], 1²⁶, 2⁸(-8); [ii], 1-65, [66-68]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner.

Support

Paper ill.

Binding

17th-century French vellum over pasteboards, with gold-stamped title on spine.

Decoration

Ink drawing of a study lamp (p. 51).

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Acquired, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--History--Early works to 1800
• Colors--Early works to 1800
• Dyes and dyeing--Early works to 1800
• Perfumes--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Recipes
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, French--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• French
• France
• Drawing
• Recipe book
• Alchemy
• Paper
• History

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• 51 — Drawing, Study lamp, p. 51