Scielta delle pratiche piu degne dell'una et l'altra medicina divisa in III parte, nelle quali si tratta non solo delle medine interne, ma anco delle esterne et delle qualità de forni, vasi, et fuochi, che per estrahere acque, olii, varie essenze et tinture ..

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1600

Description:

Treatise on medicine and laboratory experiments. In three parts.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Strozzi family (stamp, f. i recto).; Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1951.

Subject:

Chemical laboratories; Chemistry -- History; Chemistry; History; Laboratories -- Furniture, equipment, etc; Medicine -- Early works to 1800; Medicine; Medicine -- Research

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Drawings (visual works); Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

297 leaves : paper, illustrations; 302 x 209 (185 x 130) mm bound to 313 x 210 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from title page (recto of fourth unnumbered folio at beginning)and from Zacour-Hirsch.; Heading of first part: Delle vere medicine spagiriche (recto of seventh unnumbered folio at beginning).; Incipit and explicit: (p. 1, first numbered section) L'arte spagirica tanto necessaria per le preparatione ... (p. 50, second numbered section) et compositione delle vere medicine. Il fine.; Pagination: Paper, iii + 291 + iii; [viii], 1-421, [i], 422-521,[ii], 1-50, [iii unnumbered folios]. Contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Existing page numbers used in description. Catchwords in lower right corner of each page.; Script: Written in a cursive script.; Decoration: Part 3 (p. 1-50, second paginated section) illustrated with 45 pen-and-ink drawings of chemical instruments and experiments; pen-and-ink signet drawing of a bird on a pyre (possibly the phoenix) surrounded by the motto, "Per rinovar me al / fuoco mi consumo" (p. 50, second paginated section).; Watermark: Contains the initials G. N.; Binding: 17th-century Italian limp vellum. Paper weakened and discolored throughout by oxidation of ink.; Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 116