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

Title

La médicine universelle avec les regles et l'ordre à observer pour la manipulation

Authors

• Delafay, Chamberland

Call number

Ms. Codex 510
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580951
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580951

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1767

Place

France

Summary

Alchemical text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. 1). Title page which also has the following quotation: S'eleve qui voudra par force oú par adresse, /jusqu'au sommet glissant des grandeurs dela cour, /may jeveux sans quitter mon aimable séjour, /loin dumonde, et du bruit rechercher la sagesse. Horatius. Zacour-Hirsch suggest the author may be Georges de La Faye, 1699-1781.
   
• Forms part of: Henry Seybert Library of Modern Spiritualism.
   

Extent

70 leaves :

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + i (modern paper) + 70 + i (modern paper) + i (contemporary paper; [ii], 1-2, 21-24 [bound in out of sequence], 3-20, 25-28, [ii], 29-127, [i], 128, [i], 129-134; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth.

Script

Written in a cursive script by one hand, with title page in a second hand. Title may not actually belong to the text which is largely alchemical.

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• Inside back cover — Bookplate, Inside back cover