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Title

Alchemical miscellany

Authors

• Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund

Call number

Ms. Codex 1715
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9961483963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/915085977
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34b2x54s

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with one recipe in German (f. 34v)

Origin

Date

1700-1725?

Place

Naples?

Summary

Collection of articles, excerpts, and recipes, with references to Paracelsus and the Archidoxa, mercury, sulfur, coagulation, and distillation. Titles include Regulae ex summa (f. 2r), Ramus aureus (f. 7r), and Tinctura physicorum (f. 45r).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

59 leaves : 155 x 98 mm bound to 160 x 110 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 59 + i; [i-ii, 1-57]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; erased foliation in pencil in upper right recto suggests that this manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript and perhaps bound in a different order.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century half calf; gilt spine with leather pasted over one label and another label damaged; endpapers of colored pattern prints on paste paper.

Script

Written in cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Jeffrey D. Mancevice (Worcester, Massachusetts), 2014.
   

Subjects topical

• Paracelsus,--1493-1541--Archidoxa
• Alchemy
• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry

Genres

• Codices
• Excerpts
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Latin
• Recipes

Keywords

• 18th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper
• Alchemy
• Science

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