Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Universalis alchymiae compendium

Authors

• Manget, Jean-Jacques, 1652-1742

Call number

Ms. Codex 503
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580935
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580935

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin, with some sections in Italian, several leaves in French

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Italy

Summary

Collection begins with section from Franciscus Onuphrius Marsciano's Clavis arcis hermetis; it contains extracts from Jean Jacquet Manget's Bibliotheca chemica and other sources and covers a considerable area of the corpus of alchemical literature, including Basilius Valentinus, Daniel Mylius, Seger Weidenfeld, Ceasare della Riviera, etc. Volume opens with Catalogus tractatium totius operis, a detailed list of the contents of the entire work.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• 8 leaves laid in include: a sonnet, Materia Filosofia Sonetto, (1 leaf) and a note (1 leaf) laid inside the front cover; 5 leaves laid in between f. 47 and f. 48 (p. 76-77, section a.), 4 of these are illustrations of apparatus; and one leaf laid in between f. 79 and f. 80 (p. 14-15, section A.).
   
• An additional item laid inside upper cover is a booklet, 8 leaves, sewn, containing recipes for various remedies, in Italian.
   

Watermark

Several watermarks including BEINETTE, PC, and others.

Extent

309 leaves : 309 x 210 mm. bound to 318 x 230 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 309; [xviii], 1-122, [iv], 1-28, [iv], 1-26, [vi], 1-11, [x], 1-10, [x], 1-5, [vi], 1-12, [xii], 1-27, [iv], 1-10, [v], 1-35, [xii], 1-62, [x], 1-30, [ii], 1-27, [iv], 1-36, [vi], 1-23, 1-6, [vi], 1-4, [iv], contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-309], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards. Surfaces of both covers are torn. Final two sections (Q., R.) water damaged with circular stain on lower right hand corner of page, text is legible.

Layout

Written in 2 columns with the left hand column reserved for notes, page references, symbols, etc.; a few pages have two full columns of text.

Decoration

A few illustrations, mostly drawings of alembics, other alchemical apparatus, and furnaces, some drawings on smaller leaves laid in and tipped in.

Script

Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.

Provenance

• Provenance: "Il presente volume proviene della bibl. del Cav. Rossi" [18th century]; Godefr. Rivius [Rivio?], 1845.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Catalogus Tractatum totius operis, f. 2r