Splendor solis oder Sonnen Glantz

Name:

Trismosin, Salomon

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1550

Description:

Alchemical treatise about the philosophers' stone divided into seven "tracts."

Language:

German

Provenance:

Acquired, 1952.

Relation:

Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/97/

Subject:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Alchemy

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; Manuscripts, German; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

41 leaves : parchment; 306 x 200 mm bound to 313 x 205 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r). Full title on f. 1r: Das gegenwürtige Buch wirt genannt Splendor solis oder Sonnen glantz tailt inn Siben Tractat durch welches becschriben wirt die kunstlich Würkhung des verborgnen Stains der Alten Weisen....; Incipit and explicit: (f. 2r) Vorrede dises Buechs. Alphidius einer der Alten Weisen ... (f. 41v) so die alten weÿsen Inn der Kunst Gerwurcket haben. &c. Ende.; Collation: Parchment, i (paper) + 41 + i (paper); 1-9⁴, 10⁴(+1); 1-34, [i], 35-40; contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Script: Written in a late Gothic bookhand.; Binding: 16th-century German vellum over pasteboards, with remnants of green fabric ties.; Origin: Written in Germany in the second half of the 16th century.; No illustrations, though many may have been intended. Descriptions of intended illustrations written in contemporary cursive on blank pages.; Cover boards slightly warped. Binding pulling apart; first quire almost completely detached.; Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.; German.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 108