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Title

Compendium der gantzen hermetischen Philosophie ...

Authors

• Von Hartmann, Johann Christoph

Call number

Ms. Codex 511
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580953
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580953

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German and Latin

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Germany

Summary

Alchemical text, with first volume consisting of Compendium der gantzen hermetischen Wissenschaft and Medicamenta particularia ex Fonte universali ad Corpus humanum along with preparations and experiments and the second volume consisting entirely of preparations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (v.1, p. i).
   

Watermark

HONIG.

Extent

2 v. (46, 47 leaves) : 190 x 119 (174 x 84) mm. bound to 191 x 120 mm

Foliation

V.1: Paper, 46; [iv], 1-85, [iii]; V.2: Paper, 47; [iv], 1-79, [xi]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary paper covers. Fragile. Damage from green ink, a few pages tearing along inked lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Purchased.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, German--18th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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