Collection ID: 0029 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Italian alchemical manuscripts and printed selections

Authors

• Christopher, of Paris, active 15th century (https://viaf.org/viaf/27456310)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MSS 95, Item 16
(Newark, DE, United States, University of Delaware Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://delcat.worldcat.org/oclc/40166023

Publisher

University of Delaware Library

Language

Italian; Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript on paper is composed of selections from alchemical works by the fifteenth-century alchemist Christophorus Parisiensis, in multiple hands. It begins with the Opus vegetabile et minerale (fols. 1r-). The manuscript is also bound together with pages from three different printed books, one of which whose title page is present (Pronostico calculato : l'anno MDCIII et dura in perpetuo ... Stampata in Ferrar, Bologna, Ancona, Perugia, & in Fiorenza ..., l'anno 1603. [8] p.) Some portions of the manuscript include recipes. An author inscription on unnumbered folio 220r names a certain Caseolus as the writer of the manuscript and states that he began his talk on 10 March 1505. The date 1479 is mentioned on fol. 166v, but this is a reference to the original date of the text, not the date of copying.

Notes

• Five stubs between fol. 30 and 31 in the last section
   
• The first text, on vegetables and minerals, is that found in Florence, BNCF, ms. Magl. 16, 043, fols. 146a-278a
   
• Author inscription on unnumbered fol. 220r reads: "IN NOMINE DNI AMEN, AMEN ANNO DNI, MILLESIMO QUINQUA-GESIMO QUINTO DIE, OVERO DECEM MARTI, EGO CASEOLUS CEPI, AD SCRIBERE LIBRUM"
   
• Two smaller bifolios of a printed text, not accounted for in collation model, bound in as a compound quire between fols. [12] and 13 towards the end of the manuscript
   

Extent

I+311+i; 205 x 148 bound to 210 x 149 mm

Foliation

Various systems of pagination and foliation throughout

Collation

1-6 (8), 7-8 (20), 9 (26), 10-11 (20), 12 (16), 13 (8), 14 (15, +1), 15 (4), 16 (9, +8), 17 (8, +4 +5), 18 (7, +5 +6 +7), 19 (23, +2), 20 (12), 21 (25, +1 -23 -24 -25), 22 (3, +3), 23 (4), 24 (5, +4), 25 (12, +7 +9)

Signatures

Signatures a-m visible in center of lower margins on many rectos

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Original catchwords in lower right corner of many versos

Binding

Original calf over pasteboard; "Philosophia Chimica" written on spine

Layout

Single-column throughout, written area of varying size

Script

Early modern cursive

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• 17th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Alchemy
• Science

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Opus vegetabile et minerale magni et excellentissimi lapidis philosophorum sive tractatus de compositione eiusdem divini lapidis, followed by other treatises; incipit: In nomine dei eterni auctoris & redemptoris humane nature nostre qui dixit et facta sunt.... Misericordias domini in eternum cantabo... [fol. 1r]
• fol. 1r — Acqua adens color de oro allo arg.
• fol. 220r — Author inscription, 10 March 1505
• fol. 1r — Opus vegetabile et minerale magni et excellentissimi lapidis philosophorum sive tractatus de compositione eiusdem divini lapidis, followed by other treatises; incipit: In nomine dei eterni auctoris & redemptoris humane nature nostre qui dixit et facta sunt.... Misericordias domini in eternum cantabo... [fol. 1r]
• fol. 1r — Acqua adens color de oro allo arg.

Decorations

• fol. 5v — Manicule
• fol. 14v — Partial diagram
• fol. 16v — Manicule
• fol. 39r — Manicule
• fol. 40r — Manicule
• fol. 40v — Manicule
• fol. 54r — Manicule
• fol. 56r — Manicule
• fol. 58r — Manicule
• fol. 128v — Manicule
• fol. 191v — Manicule
• fol. 192r — Manicule
• fol. 5v — Manicule
• fol. 14v — Partial diagram
• fol. 16v — Manicule
• fol. 23v — Marginalia
• fol. 1r — Diagram
• fol. 2v — Diagram
• fol. 5r] (Stub) — Wheel of Moses Diagram
• fol. 7r] (Stub) — Wheel of Moses Diagram
• fol. 8r] (Stub) — Wheel of Moses Diagram
• fol. 9r — Diagram of the Wheel of Moses
• fol. 10r — Diagram with planetary spheres
• fol. 11v — Marginal Diagram
• fol. 14v — Partial diagram
• fol. 16v — Manicule
• fol. 23v — Marginalia
• fol. 1r — Diagram
• fol. 2v — Diagram
• fol. 9r — Diagram of the Wheel of Moses
• fol. 10r — Diagram with planetary spheres
• fol. 11v — Marginal Diagram