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Title

Treatises of the true salt, the philosophers secrett, and of the generall spiritt of the world

Authors

• Nuisement, Clovis Hesteau, sieur de

Other related names

• Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, 1604-1675, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 501
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580933
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580933

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1699

Place

England

Summary

Translation of Traittez de l'harmonie et constitution généralle du vray sel, secret des philosophes, et de l'esprit universelle du monde from the first French edition, "Printed in Paris by Jeremias Perier & Abdias Brisard ... Anno MDCXXI." Prefaced with an address "To the most high most mightie & most vertuous Prince Monseigneour ... Duke of Lorraine," signed de Nuisement. The work is divided into three books, the first book consists of Chapters 1-9 (p. 1-28), the second book consists of Chapters 1-4 (p. 29-125), and the third book is the conclusion, (p. 126-141).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. v); English title of the 1657 and 1658 printed editions translated by Robert Turner, as described in Ferguson's Bibliotheca chemica, II, p.148, is quite different.
   

Extent

80 leaves : 196 x 151 (182 x 130) mm. bound to 199 x 155 mm

Foliation

Paper, 80 leaves; [xvi], 1-141, [142-144]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary sheepskin. Binding broken along spine, a few wormholes.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--History

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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