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Title

Theodori Kerckringii doctoris medici Commentarius in Currum triumphalem antimonii Basilii Valentini, à se latinitate donatum

Authors

• Basilius Valentinus

Other related names

• Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708, illustrator
• Kerckring, Theodor, 1640-1693, commentator for written text

Call number

Ms. Codex 120
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580536
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580536

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin, with occasional words in Greek (for example, p. 175)

Origin

Date

ca. 1671

Place

Amsterdam?

Summary

Alchemical work by Basilius Valentinus, Currus triumphalis antimonii, with a commentary by Dutch doctor and anatomist Theodor Kerckring. The text and commentary are followed by an index (p. 289-308). Careful manuscript of a printed edition (Amsterdam, 1671), including the title vignettes and illustrations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. 1); half title Currus triumphalis antimonii (p. vii).
   
• Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
   

Extent

159 leaves : 150 x 95 (128 x 70) mm. bound to 157 x 114 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern) + 159 + i (modern) leaves; [i-viii], 1-288, [289-310], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth over cardboard by Eberhardt, 1961 (note, end flyleaf); due to tightness of binding, some text is in the gutter.

Layout

Written in 24 long lines.

Decoration

7 pen-and-ink illustrations, comprising the half title vignette, with the title Currus triumphalis antimonii and attribution Romijn de Hooghe fecit 1671 (p. viii); title-page vignette copying the title page of a printed book (p. 1); and five illustrations in the text of chemical apparatus (p. 161, 187, 197, 243, 252). The illustrations are on pieces of slightly darker paper pasted into the manuscript. The text is in a black ink; the commentary is in a lighter red or brown ink that has faded in many places, sometimes to the point of illegibility. Underlining, marginal headings, and symbols keyed to the commentary in the text are in the same faded red or brown ink.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly sold by book dealers B. & J. F. Meehan (Bath) and George Redway (London; labels for both inside upper cover).
   
• Purchased, 1944.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Antimony--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--History
• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Medieval

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

  All referenced images and their content 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/.

  URL

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• 1 — Illustration, Title-page vignette, p. 1
• 161 — Illustration, Chemical apparatus, p. 161
• 187 — Illustration, Chemical apparatus, p. 187
• 197 — Illustration, Chemical apparatus, p. 197
• 243 — Illustration, Chemical apparatus, p. 243
• 252 — Illustration, Chemical apparatus, p. 252
• 289 — Index, p. 289