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Title

Alchemical-pharmaceutical notebook

Authors

• Gualdi, Federico

Call number

Ms. Codex 126
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915805423503681
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580542

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French, with some Italian, Spanish and Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1739-1771

Place

Italy

Summary

Contains remedies, experiments and extracts on "poudre universelle" (f. 12v); "misterio filosofico della segreta preparatione della pietra, e nella materia del sale" (f. 35v); "nitro detonato e conservato" (f. 64v); etc. Also includes more extensive sections toward the end: "Opus Photum a Friderico Gualdi descriptum" (f. 81r-92r); "La Manière de faire le sel et soulphre d'antimoine" (f. 93r-95r); "Metodo occultissima all'universal medicina" (f. 107r-109v); etc. Also includes a second set of notes beginning from the opposite end of the manuscript, among them a "Sonetto di Federigo Gualdi." This section begins imperfectly, since there is a stub after f. 133 and some text appears to be lost. Folios 66v-94v and 105r-106v are blank. There are stubs after f. 114, 129 and 133.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

133 leaves : 143 x 99 mm. bound to 140 x 97 mm

Collation

Paper, 133; 1¹⁸, 2-5²⁰, 6²⁰(-3), 7²⁰(-2); [1-133]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. There are traces of earlier foliation in different sections, indicating that this manuscript was originally part of one or more larger codices

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century Italian limp vellum with decorative sewing on spine. Vellum cover cracked and split. First quire slightly loose; last quire very loose.

Decoration

Several small diagrams (f. 29v, 58v, 95v).

Script

Written in a cursive script by several hands.

Provenance

• Acquired, 1965.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--History--Early works to 1800
• Pharmacology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Notebooks
• Recipes
• Codices
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 12v — Poudre universelle, f. 12v
• fol. 35v — Misterio filosofico della segreta preparatione della pietra, e nella materia del sale, f. 35v
• fol. 64v — Nitro detonato e conservato, f. 64v
• fol. 81r — Opus Photum a Friderico Gualdi descriptum, f. 81r
• fol. 93r — La Manie?re de faire le sel et soulphre d?antimoine, f. 93r
• fol. 107r — Metodo occultissima all?universal medicina, f. 107r

Decorations

• fol. 29v — Diagram, f. 29v
• fol. 58v — Diagram, f. 58v
• fol. 95v — Diagram, f. 95v