Ms. Codex 131 Italian alchemical miscellany
Title
Italian alchemical miscellanyCall number
Ms. Codex 131(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9915517553503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122545138
- http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1551755
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
Latin, with some ItalianOrigin
Written in Italy between the late 16th and the early 17th century.
- Date
- between 1550 and 1650
- Place
-
Italy
Summary
Collection of alchemical recipes preceded by a few brief treatises (including a commentary attributed to Hortulanus and a work referring to Arnaldus de Villanova). Folios 1-2, 40 and 42-43 are blank. There is a short guide, index or key in a later hand at the end (f. 41r).
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- The incipits of the first (Verum est sine mendatio..., f. 3r) and fourth (Recipe limatura lupi limati libram unam...) works are listed in Thorndike and Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin.
Watermark
Several different designs, including one which appears to be a cardinal's hat but is too faint to read.Extent
43 leaves : 213 x 155 (194 x 134) mm. bound to 222 x 150 mmFoliation
Paper, 43; 1-2¹⁶ 3-6¹ 7⁸(-1); [1-43]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, irregular contemporary pagination/foliation in ink, upper right recto.Support
PaperBinding
17th-century Italian pasteboards. Paper frayed at the edges. Some evidence of worm and rodent damage. Lower outer edge of upper cover and many front folios badly damaged, possibly resulting in some slight loss of text.Decoration
Several ink drawings of chemical apparatus (f. 9v); many chemical and alchemical symbols throughout.
Script
Provenance
- Acquired, 1965.
Subjects topical
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800
- Chemistry--History
Genres
- Codices
- Drawings
- Recipes
- Treatises
- Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
- Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Manuscripts, European
Keywords
- 16th century
- 17th century
- Drawing
- Alchemy
- History
- Paper
- Italy
- Italian
- Science
- Chemistry
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Images
Inside front cover
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fol. 3r
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Section: Epistola Hermetis, f. 3r
Section: Expositio Ortulani super praedicta epistola, f. 3r
fol. 5v
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Section: De lapide minerali, f. 5v
fol. 8r
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Section: Vera operatio Arnaldi, f. 8r
fol. 9r
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Section: Collection of alchemical recipes, f. 9r
fol. 9v
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Decoration: Drawing, Alchemical equipment, f. 9v
fol. 14r
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Decoration: Manicule, f. 14r
fol. 35r
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Decoration: Manicule, f. 35r