[Alchemical miscellany]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

Collection of articles, excerpts, and recipes, with references to Paracelsus and the Archidoxa, mercury, sulfur, coagulation, and distillation. Titles include Regulae ex summa (f. 2r), Ramus aureus (f. 7r), and Tinctura physicorum (f. 45r).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Jeffrey D. Mancevice (Worcester, Massachusetts), 2014.

Relation:

The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281

Subject:

Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Archidoxa; Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Alchemy; Chemistry -- Early works to 1800; Chemistry

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Excerpts; Recipes; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

59 leaves : paper; 155 x 98 mm bound to 160 x 110 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Paper, i + 59 + i; [i-ii, 1-57]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; erased foliation in pencil in upper right recto suggests that this manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript and perhaps bound in a different order.; Script: Written in cursive script by multiple hands.; Binding: 18th-century half calf; gilt spine with leather pasted over one label and another label damaged; endpapers of colored pattern prints on paste paper.; Origin: Possibly written in Naples (f. 55v) in the early 18th century (Mancevice).; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.; Latin, with one recipe in German (f. 34v).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1715

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund