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

Title

Traité du lapis des philosophes

Authors

• Rouillhac, Philippe de
• Duclos, Gaston
• Le Tesson, Jacques

Call number

Ms. Codex 516
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580970
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580970

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

before 1778

Place

France

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Titles from headings.
   

Extent

141 leaves : 164 x 110 (140 x 85) mm. bound to 173 x 123 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 141 + iii (contemporary paper); [1-141]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Partial contemporary pagination in ink, 211-403, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf.

Script

Written in a cursive script by two hands, different paper begins on f. 46, with pencilled notes in another hand, and a description of the first work, attributed to Philippe de Rouillhac, written in a later hand on f. 1.

Provenance

• Printed bookplate, Derieu, with ms. date 1778 (f. 1v).
   
• Acquired, 1967.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Traite? du lapis des philosophes, f. 2r
• fol. 21r — Commentaire sur le lapis des philosophes...par le S[ieu]r [Gaston] Duclos, f. 22r
• fol. 45r — Oeuvre du cyon verd...par Jacques le Tesson, f. 46r
• fol. 71r — Deuxie?me dialogue sur la conduite des philosophes ou le grand cheriacque des philosophes par Jacques le Tesson, [and] Sommaire de la pre?ce?dente conduite en forme de pratique, f. 72r
• fol. 110v — [Troisie?m]e traite? de Tesson, f. 111v